Sentences with phrase «cypress swamps»

Many of the things that I love and my children love such as the natural barrier island beaches, the tidal cypress swamps, and the pine forests, all within a half hour drive from our home, will without a doubt be gone by 2100.

East Texas is home to pine forests, cypress swamps and the Dallas - Fort Worth metro area, one of the fastest - growing spots in the state.

Finally his family discovers him in a remote Louisiana mill town, promptly buys the property, and puts Randolph in charge of this place unlike any he has ever seen, where men are surrounded by cypress swamps and menace, leading lives of ceaseless, backbreaking toil punctuated only by the brutal entertainments provided by the Sicilians who control the whiskey and card games and girls, and by the rough justice meted out by the still - tormented Byron.

Now locals are trying to deal with the shock of losing places they had known all their lives — fishing camps, cypress swamps, beachfronts, even cattle pastures and backyards — with more disappearing every day.

Nutria can destroy coastal marshes and bald cypress swamps by eating the roots and developing plants, wiping out vegetation.

On February 11, 2004, Sparling was kayaking in Arkansas through a cypress swamp in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge when he was startled by a large black, white, and red woodpecker.

When I was in Florida a few weeks ago, I visited the Audubon Society's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary (highly, HIGHLY recommended should you be in southwest Florida), which features a two and a quarter mile boardwalk through old - growth cypress swamp.

With simple sentences and plenty of action verbs, Schaefer sets the scene in a cypress swamp with animals at work.

It's a murky virgin cypress swamp filled with mud, muck, shrubs, and thickets.

Mangled branches of a cypress swamp tree are arranged to resemble a torso and legs in trap (ped), 2011.

Not exact matches

The aviary exhibits five native Florida ecosystems; coastal prairie, mangrove swamp, cypress forest, sub-tropical hardwood hammock, and sawgrass prairie.

The arthritic cypress has no age, never having been young, its gnarled grip sufficient, and its fall unwitnessed, the swamp collecting all of its debts.

In addition, the researchers collected other fossils from the Tevshiin Govi mine, including seed plants related to modern pines, spruces, swamp cypresses and redwoods.

Genetic research has shown that it was first conceived in Mexico, carried north by a band of Olmec nomads and finally deposited beneath a bald cypress tree in the Honey Island Swamp.

He glanced nervously at the infernal landscape that stretched around us in all directions: the dreary swamps, the cypresses dripping with dead moss, the lurid red sky, the Wall of Flame burning in the far distance.

Swamp Dogs sells table and floor display stands made from pieces of cypress, fished from the swamps, along with a variety of Louisiana - themed material to set the tone and attract attention.

After all, cypress evolved in swamp and grows in standing water.

Yet even while dead, the cypress can stay in place for up two 2 centuries, thus still representing a strong defense against hurricanes; when combined with the loggers» zeal, the increased salinity of the swamp has all but eliminated the cypress» chances to make a full, let alone partial, recovery.

Okefenokee Swamp encompasses over 400,000 acres of canals; moss draped cypress trees, and lily pad prairies providing sanctuaries for hundreds of species of birds and wildlife including several endangered species.

Truthfully, what could be more romantic and peaceful than spending time in a butterfly and / or bird greenhouse, strolling hand - in - hand, alongside a quiet swamp at Moncks Corner, or paddling through Blackwater creeks, while admiring the picturesque cypress trees?