John Manuel starts his workday on the Tchefuncte River, near its mouth at Lake Pontchartrain. It's a cloudless late morning, but as he accelerates past ritzy waterfront properties in Madisonville, 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 ...

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 ...