Moreover, it's steeped in Everglades lore ... A photographer's love letter to Loop Road, deep in the Big Cypress swamp ...

into Everglades National Park, and into the vital estuaries along Florida’s southwest coast. Big Cypress is remarkable for its temperate and tropical mixture of species found across five major ...

Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a ...

Big Cypress is the nation’s first national preserve (established in 1974) and offers more than 700,000 acres of wetlands to explore by foot, kayak or swamp buggy. The vast landscape, north of and ...

The Florida Everglades, described by writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas as "a river of grass," are comprised of sawgrass marsh punctuated by cypress swamps and mangrove forests – an ecosystem ...

Florida’s Indigenous people are again fighting to protect their homeland from a threat involving the National Park Service; ...

During the 20th century about half of the Big Cypress Swamp and the neighboring Everglades was destroyed for cities and farms. Invasive trees such as the melaleuca and the Brazilian pepper ...

Swamps have a shadowy tree root system and cypress knobs that provide a rich ... Though technically a marsh, the Everglades in Florida is commonly called a swamp. This area is called the ...

The Atchafalaya Basin has bragging rights as the biggest U.S. river swamp – even bigger than the Florida Everglades ... 45 miles west of Baton Rouge. The Cypress Island Nature Preserve at ...