The Francis Beidler Forest is one of SC's oldest untouched forests. The state-owned Santee Cooper utility wants to run a new ...

Beidler Forest in the Lowcountry is the largest uncut cypress-tupelo swamp in the world, with some trees that have been growing for more than a millennium, according to Audubon South Carolina. As ...

Part of Cypress Island Preserve, Lake Martin offers boat tours, blooming irises, and rare wildlife in one of Louisiana’s most ...

“It’s 20 years in the making to actually get us here.” Cypress and tupelo trees reflected in the Maurepas Swamp on Friday, February 3, 2023. Most of this region was deforested decades ago.

For “Swamp Tupelo,” one of the most populous trees in the Congaree Forest, he writes: “The music is a long, drawn-out, flowing dance — a Beethovian Minuet — that ebbs and flows like the ...

For the past 14 years, Ben Pierce has served as the executive director of the Lafayette-based nonprofit Louisiana Swamp Base, as well as the director for Swamp Base’s partner company, ...