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Established in 1989, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation faces a daunting task: to restore and preserve the water quality and habitat in the vast, 10,000-square-mile watershed surrounding Lake Pontchartrain, a shallow and brackish 629-square-mile inland bay that sits just...