Wearing waders and ear muffs, volunteers rode airboats out the mouth of the Tchefuncte River and along the lakefront over to ...

symbolic of the American deep south swamps. The 1,000-year-old cypress trees are festooned with thick drapes of Spanish moss, which grow harmlessly on their boughs, deriving nutrients from the rain ...

The Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary will close temporarily ... The sanctuary is home to one of the northernmost stands ...

“As I turned off Bald Cypress [trail], I stopped short ... and needles. Cypress trees are abundant in southern swamps. As evergreens, they produce needles year-round. As the needles age and ...

Dozens of volunteers planted bald cypress trees around a nearly 200-year-old ... fan-powered boats. In the swamp behind the lighthouse, the volunteers dug basketball-sized holes in the mud for ...

we were in a labyrinth of shallow islands dense with cypress trees From the instant we got ... The aptly named bald cypress is one of the few conifer species that loses its needles in winter ...

The group, organized by Parish Proud, took part in an environmental initiative aimed at beautifying the park and promoting sustainability by planting 35 native bald cypress trees. Kiara Martin ...