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 ...

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 ...