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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A preliminary estimate from Dr. Gary Shaffer and other local scientists projects that 80 percent of southern Louisiana's cypress forests would not grow back if cut down -- some would become open marsh ...