swamp

Confident that the Ivorybill still survives in the deep swamp forests of Louisiana, Mission Ivorybill is greatly encouraged by today’s United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS” or “the Service”) announcement that the Service is postponing action on the Ivorybill for an additional six months.

During a period of four hours beginning at 10AM on Thursday, August 27,2020, the D'Arbonne Swamp changed for many decades. The change was aeolian in the…

On this place where we live and that we call Heartwood, Rocky Branch flows intermittently throughout the year. With the shallow water table beneath its…

The days of this tree are numbered and she won't likely last the winter. This prognosis is not arboreal soothsaying but rather the physics involved in…

It is quiet here now on the edge of this swamp, quiter than it has been in many years. Perhaps the level of background noise approached that when my…

Swamps sleep naked and are slow to awaken. Long after green-up in the uplands, deep overflow swamps that sustain Louisiana bayous and rivers remain…

That an old, time-marred box turtle in my hand today could be the same one held by my great grandfather on the edge of this swamp a hundred years ago…