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Big Cypress Swamp is an extensive subtropical wetland in southern Florida, much of which is protected within Big Cypress National Preserve. The preserve was established in 1974 and covers roughly 729,000 acres of cypress strands, wet prairies, pinelands, hardwood hammocks, and estuarine areas. Its s...
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a protected wetland managed by the National Audubon Society in southwestern Florida. It preserves an important old-growth bald cypress forest together with pine flatwoods, wet prairie, marsh, and pond habitats used by alligators, otters, wading birds, and numerous plant...
Caddo Lake is a lake and wetland complex spanning the Texas and Louisiana border. It is characterized by bayous, shallow open water, extensive bald cypress stands, aquatic plants, and trees draped with Spanish moss, creating habitat for fish, waterfowl, reptiles, and mammals. Portions of the lake ar...
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park protects a long, forested wetland in Collier County in southwestern Florida. Its strand swamp, sloughs, marl prairies, and upland habitats support a notably diverse assemblage of native orchids, bromeliads, royal palms, alligators, black bears, and Florida pant...
The Cache River Wetlands form a protected wetland complex in southern Illinois within the Mississippi River's historic alluvial region. The landscape includes bottomland forest, swamps, sloughs, and floodplain habitats, with notable stands of bald cypress and water tupelo far north of the trees' pri...
Four Holes Swamp is a blackwater wetland in South Carolina whose drainage joins the Edisto River system. Its flooded forest contains bald cypress and water tupelo, including old-growth cypress trees estimated to exceed 1,000 years in age. The swamp provides habitat for birds, reptiles, amphibians, f...
Reelfoot Lake is a shallow natural lake in northwestern Tennessee, formed after land subsidence associated with the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812. Standing and submerged bald cypress trees give much of the lake its distinctive appearance, while its wetlands support fish, waterfowl, bald ea...
Barataria Preserve is a unit of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in southeastern Louisiana, southwest of New Orleans. It protects a landscape of bayous, marshes, bottomland hardwood forest, and bald cypress and water tupelo swamp within the Mississippi River delta region. Boardwalk...
Merchants Millpond State Park is a North Carolina state park centered on a historic millpond in Gates County, near the Virginia border. Its wetland landscape contains bald cypress and tupelo gum trees rising from dark, slow-moving water and supports wildlife associated with the state's coastal plain...
Honey Island Swamp is a largely undeveloped wetland in southeastern Louisiana, situated near the Pearl River and the Mississippi border. Its habitats include cypress-tupelo swamp, marsh, hardwood bottomland, and waterways used by alligators, wild boar, turtles, wading birds, and other wildlife. Part...
Pocomoke Swamp is a forested wetland surrounding parts of the Pocomoke River on the Delmarva Peninsula, principally in Maryland and extending toward Virginia. Its dark, slow-moving water is colored by tannins from decaying vegetation, while its forests include bald cypress, loblolly pine, red maple,...
Pearl River Wildlife Management Area straddles the Louisiana-Mississippi border along the Pearl River, providing wetland habitat for migratory birds and American alligators.
Wambaw Creek Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area within Francis Marion National Forest in coastal South Carolina. It protects a low-lying landscape shaped by Wambaw Creek, including blackwater wetlands, bottomland hardwood forest, and stands of bald cypress and water tupelo. With de...
