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Conservationists try to protect ecologically rich Alabama delta

MOBILE- TENSAW DELTA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of American lotuses carpet the water's surface, faces turned toward the morning sun. Bright yellow warblers flit among cypress trees along a creek bank. A paddlefish jumps as a motorboat rounds a bend.

The Mobile-Tensaw Delta — a lush, vibrant and surprisingly intact over 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanseofcypressswamps, oxbow lakes, marshl…

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