This 12,000-acre Florida state park near Copeland is one of the state’s most surprising wilderness areas, filled with rare orchids, towering cypress forests, and incredible wildlife.

Louisiana’s swamps support a wide range of native wildlife and plant life that many visitors have never encountered ...

Lake Martin, La — LAKE MARTIN, La. — We were looking for the big ones — the kind of alligators that give thrills to tourists toting cameras on shallow aluminum boats. After strolling the boardwalk ...

Bald cypress trees can grow 150 feet tall and, like trees in the Amazon rainforest, can create entirely new aerial ecosystems far above the swamp floor. Yellow helmet orchids, one of 13 species of ...

Bald Cypress swamp at Atchafalaya basin in Louisiana. When is a tree not a tree? We often think of urban trees as simply poles in the ground, islands unto themselves, but they are ecosystems all their ...

MARRERO, LA, UNITED STATES, November 13, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In the winding waterways of South Louisiana, the cypress swamp stands as a living monument to time ...

Pieces of ancient stumps, roots and cypress knees hauled up during maintenance work at the Altamaha Wildlife Management Area on the Georgia Coast lie in the foreground of this flooded field. Deep in ...

I see that the New Jersey Heritage Program, which keeps track of these things, has decided that bald cypress, heretofore considered a non-native species, has been promoted to native on the strength of ...

The way the legend goes, the enormous bald cypress grew from the ground 200 years ago when Louisville’s founder George Rogers Clark stuck his walking stick into the ground. That’s a "nice story," ...