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 ...

Falls of Rough, Kentucky – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and volunteers took to the banks of Rough River Lake recently to complete a tree planting project that will provide benefits for the area for ...

Consider this a cautionary tale, in the best sense of things. I first heard of Cat Island Wildlife Refuge when I moved to Louisiana. People told me that the largest bald cypress tree in the world was ...

The way the legend goes, the enormous bald cypress grew from the ground 200 years ago when Louisville’s founder George Rogers Clark stuck his walking stick into the ground. That’s a "nice story," ...

Dozens of volunteers planted bald cypress trees around a nearly 200-year-old Madisonville lighthouse for a wetlands restoration project Tuesday morning — the latest restoration event organized by ...

Pieces of ancient stumps, roots and cypress knees hauled up during maintenance work at the Altamaha Wildlife Management Area on the Georgia Coast lie in the foreground of this flooded field. Deep in ...