Floating handicap-accessible docks, tour boats and a pavilion overlooking the Atchafalaya Basin are part of Swamp Base Inc. at the site of the former McGee’s Landing in Henderson, phase one of a project by the Evangeline Area Council Boy Scouts to attract scouts and other visitors to and preserve the nation’s largest river swamp.
As the first phase of the project concludes, leaders are working toward Phase 2, which will include a welcome center, a logistics building and a learning center. Eventually, they’d like to build housing, as well.
In 2010, for the Centennial of Scouting, the Evangeline Area Council leadership adopted the Atchafalaya Basin as its focus for “doing good turns” every day of the year, Gary McGoffin, Louisiana Swamp Base board member, said…