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Until today, Mississippi River reintroductions ... nearly 45,000 acres of degraded and submerged “swamp forest,” where bald cypress, water tupelo and red swamp maple create native canopies.

The swamp and its tangle of cypress and tupelo trees have been cut off from revitalizing river water for decades due to the levees keeping the Mississippi in place, helping cause its slow decline.

Deprived of nutrients from the stanched Mississippi River, the swamp's iconic trees are dying ... who are dependent on water tupelo and bald cypress foliage. When there's less healthy leaves ...

When the Mississippi River is at risk of flooding ... “This is not a crawfish pond. This is a cypress tupelo swamp that is in rapid decline,” Sparks said. For all its challenges, the ...

Whether you’re hoping to spot a black bear ambling through the woods, a great egret gliding over a cypress swamp, or a pod ... rolling hills of the north, Mississippi is home to a remarkable ...

How does this swamp and its cypress trees protect us from hurricanes ... This basin takes part of the flow of the Mississippi River and all of the flow of the Red River, but during flood times ...

Bald-cypress is a typical tree of this vast wetland, often growing within the swamp areas, draped in moss, and providing food, nesting places and shelter for many of the animals found here. Twice a ...

holds Louisiana’s second largest contiguous forest filled with water tupelo and bald cypress trees. Deprived of nutrients from the levee system along the Mississippi River, the swamp’s iconic ...