Q. What can you tell me about “sinker” cypress versus regular cypress? A. Normally, logs from cypress trees will float in water when they are harvested. Sometimes, however, they have a bacterial ...

A. Normally, logs from cypress trees will float in water when they are harvested. Sometimes, however, they have a bacterial infection in the living tree that increases the water content so that the ...

John Manuel starts his workday on the Tchefuncte River, near its mouth at Lake Pontchartrain. It's a cloudless late morning, but as he accelerates past ritzy waterfront properties in Madisonville, the ...

The bridge is closed that leads over Bayou Mercier to Greg Guirard's cypress cabin, creating a circuitous detour and an even quieter-than-usual space on the edge of the swamp. I don't mind the detour.

Reporting from Meggett, S.C. — Hewitt Emerson stuffed himself into a wetsuit, took a deep breath and plunged from a barge into the murky black waters of the Edisto River. Emerson swam down to the muck ...