Down along the state line in Frankford exists Delaware’s largest freshwater wetland and contiguous block of forest, and perhaps its last truly wild land: the Great Cypress Swamp. At one time, the ...

“The Indian River Swamps, otherwise called the Cypress Swamps,” an anonymous letter published on July 10, 1797, in The American Universal Magazine, “are situated in Delaware and Maryland, a little to ...

“The Swamp” makes up about 10,000 acres of land in Sussex County, Del. and Worcester County, Md. Although that may seem like a lot, at one point there was an estimated 60,000 acres.

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 ...

Southern Sussex County's Great Cypress Swamp used to encompass over 50,000 acres, but was nearly destroyed by centuries of fires, logging, ditching and draining. Today, nonprofit Delaware Wild Lands ...