Our purpose: to inventory, landmark, and promote the stewardship of cypress trees in Louisiana that are over 200 years old--alive at the time of the Louisiana Purchase.

Resources
Death by a Thousand cuts

This color PDF brochure (656K) on Cypress tree logging and clear-cutting is subtitled "Our Cypress Forests Threatened Now More Than Ever".

Bald Cypress: Louisiana's state tree

A PDF brochure (168K) on Bald Cypress trees, produced by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry Office of Forestry.

An Interim Old-Growth Definition for Cypress-Tupelo Communities in the Southeast

A PDF file (887K) written by Margaret S. Devall for the USDA Forest Service that defines Old-Growth Cypress-Tupelo communities in the Southeast U.S.
General Technical Report SRS-19 published by the USFS Southern Research Station in Asheville, NC USA.

Defining Old Growth in the Southeast: Example of Cypress

A PDF file (314K) written by Margaret S. Devall, Paul C. Van Deusen and Gregory A. Reams for the USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station in New Orleans, LA USA that defines Old-Growth Cypress communities in the U.S.

Louisiana Purchase Cypress Legacy's comment letter to the SWG

The link above will open a PDF file (92K) of the Louisiana Purchase Cypress Legacy's comments to the Coastal Forest Science Working Group (SWG) regarding wetland forest conservation and use.

dogwoodalliance.org

The above link will take you to the Dogwood Alliance's Home page.

primalnature.org

The above link will take you to Primal Nature's Home page.

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