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The half-million-acre Cache River Watershed looks more like the far South than Southern Illinois. This natural wonder support ancient cypress trees – some of them more than 100 feet tall ...
A 1,000-plus-old bald cypress tree in the Cache River swamp holds the state title for oldest tree. Norma Klingsick, Post-Dispatch A young cypress tree grows in the middle of the Cache River in ...
The Cache River basin is designated a Wetland of International Importance. From 1,000-year-old cypress trees to waterfowl and other migratory birds, from bottomland forests to bobcats, bald eagles ...
CYPRESS — The Cache River Wetlands Center will host a Project Learning Tree Workshop from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, at the Barkhausen-Cache River Wetlands Center at ...
Christopher David Benda stands along side the state champion bald cypress, No. 2 on the Illinois Big Tree Register, in the Cache River. Christopher David Benda.