Southern Sussex County's Great Cypress Swamp used to encompass over 50,000 acres, but was nearly destroyed by centuries of fires, logging, ditching and draining. Today, nonprofit Delaware Wild Lands ...

The only thing stopping chainsaws from cutting down cypress trees in Louisiana is the Army Corps of Engineers. It's not a desire to save the trees that is motivating it, but rather concerns about the ...

A cypress-tupelo forest in the Ivory Swamp. The same Ivory Swamp cypress-tupelo forest after loggers cut its larger cypress trees for mulch. Tour guide and environmental activist Dean Wilson holds a ...

First they came for Louisiana’s marshes. Now they may be coming for its swamps. Nutria, an invasive, orange-toothed rodent blamed for eating through several hundred acres of Louisiana marsh each year, ...

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. - Karen Joy Fowler Author Karen Joy Fowler has it right. When it comes to "immortal" trees in Illinois and the Eastern U.S., none have ...

Never mind what happened last week. Or last year. Or last century, even. Let’s focus for a moment on what happened a few hundred years ago, when a few hundred cypress seeds settled, sunk roots and ...