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 ...
A cypress-tupelo forest in the Ivory Swamp. The same Ivory Swamp cypress-tupelo forest after loggers cut its larger cypress trees for mulch. Tour guide and environmental activist Dean Wilson holds a ...
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 ...