Down along the state line in Frankford exists Delaware’s largest freshwater wetland and contiguous block of forest, and perhaps its last truly wild land: the Great Cypress Swamp. At one time, the ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Minutes from the New Orleans Central Business District, an airboat whisks us into another world, a seemingly untouched place populated by alligators and bald eagles. But Russell Easley ...

The Oasis Visitor Center at Big Cypress National Preserve is about as far away from South Florida's urban landscape as you can get - but still close enough to Palm Beach County to make driving there ...

Breathless, rotting timber is scattered across parts of the Great Cypress Swamp, sacrificed, sticking jaggedly out from deep pools of water. But death is bringing life back. "Depending on who you are, ...

“The Indian River Swamps, otherwise called the Cypress Swamps,” an anonymous letter published on July 10, 1797, in The American Universal Magazine, “are situated in Delaware and Maryland, a little to ...

Last month I awoke beside one of the most majestic natural ecosystems in the Southeast, a cypress swamp. The scene was breathtaking — mirror-like water, towering trees and their associated cypress ...

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 ...

In Florida, going to the beach is probably one of the first things we think about for a nice, sunny day outing. Having access to 47 miles of nearby Palm Beach County coastline may also be one of the ...

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 ...