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 ...

“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 ...

“The Swamp” makes up about 10,000 acres of land in Sussex County, Del. and Worcester County, Md. Although that may seem like a lot, at one point there was an estimated 60,000 acres.

Wildlife conservationists say more of Delaware’s native species will be protected, thanks to a recent donation of land. Delaware Wild Lands will use the 160 acres to expand its conservation of what’s ...

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 ...