Sprawling across 6,400 acres near Ville Platte, Louisiana’s largest state park somehow remains the state’s best-kept secret, ...

(Think “Swamp Thing.”) In the 1930s, however, renowned Harvard botanist M.L. Fernald found a good-sized patch of Spanish moss 35 miles to the north, in Northampton County on Virginia’s ...

Louisiana is home to lots of natural treasures, and Lake Martin offers one of the best places in the state to experience swamp life up close.

WE ARE LITERALLY IN A SWAMP. AS SOON AS YOU WALK DOWN TO THE ... AND WE’VE BEEN OPEN EVER SINCE, WITH SPANISH MOSS DANGLING FROM THE TREETOPS AND POPS OF VIBRANT COLOR AT EVERY TURN, STEALING ...

The black truck slowed and turned onto Camp Swamp Road. Boyd pulled behind the ... Boyd called his longtime lawyer Kenneth Moss, who arrived within minutes. By claiming self-defense, Boyd summoned ...

Not even Owen will come into the swamp at night or alone in daytime ... we navigate cypress knees poking up from the water and Spanish moss hanging from the trees. "And here’s a canoe orchid!" ...

“Swamp microbes improve water quality ... They do this by removing excess nitrogen from the water, she says. What’s more, Spanish moss, commonly found in swamps, makes our air cleaner ...

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bald cypress trees draped in delicate Spanish moss, alligators roaming the waters with snouts and eyes barely visible, and large-winged herons and egrets hunting along the flooded forest floor.

their branches adorned by wisps of Spanish moss. A beloved recreation site, the swamp also houses bald eagles, ospreys, black bears and alligators and serves as a waystation for hundreds of ...