Bald cypress trees are native to North America, and are typically found within a range spanning from the Southern U.S. to the southern tip of Illinois. This type of tree is known for being as ...

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 ...

Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge, the forested wetland wilderness that is home to the largest tree east of the Mississippi River, has been given $1.47 million by the federal Migratory Bird ...

The bald cypress tree (Taxodium distichum) has been quietly standing sentinel to centuries of ecological change in the murky wetlands of the American Southeast. These towering trees are some of the ...

VINCENNES – Ron Clark hopes to preserve the last large cypress tree in what was once Little Cypress Swamp. In a southwest corner of Knox County, known to some as Hell's Neck, rests the remaining acres ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) needs the public’s help to update The Big Tree Registry, a list of the largest known specimen of each native tree species in Indiana. “Indiana’s ...