Part of Cypress Island Preserve, Lake Martin offers boat tours, blooming irises, and rare wildlife in one of Louisiana’s most scenic swamp ecosystems.

Louisiana is gaining interest in a different type of fall color that appears in November on the bald cypress trees. Shades of red, brown, and orange are mirrored in our lakes and bayous.

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - If you want to find the oldest cypress trees in Louisiana, you'll probably need to hike through woods or wade through a swamp.

Bald cypress, Louisiana’s state tree, has never been sacred. If anything, using the great wood has always been the Louisiana way. But that could change if Gov. Kathleen Blanco decides that ...

Cypress trees grow throughout Louisiana's swamps, known for their haunting images with branches often draped with Spanish moss and air-breathing, above-ground roots known as knees.

Louisiana is home to one of the most fascinating natural wonders in America: The largest cypress tree in the U.S. Here's where to find it.

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN, La. — It takes less than a minute to plow down a cypress tree that’s been standing in this swamp for decades or longer.

But pond cypress trees thrive in Louisiana, thanks to their resilience and steady resolve in high wind. Our plucky little tree struck me as just the sort of mascot we needed to answer our grief.

Louisiana Forestry Association A private lobbying group whose 4,0o0 members include landowners, foresters, wood suppliers, and loggers, the lfa insists that most cypress will grow back when logged.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s iconic bald cypress trees will be protected on state-owned property, after Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a new law banning the trees’ harvesting on more ...

ASCENSION PARISH, LA (WVUE) - In a state that celebrates its old live oak trees, a New Orleans man is searching for bald cypress trees that were standing at the time of the Louisiana Purchase.