Good news. Goes to show us all that our neighbors are concerned about the outdoors and are willing to fight for it. This is lacking in many areas.
Cypress is plentiful and regenerating in my area. I guess because the water can vary from 10 ft. to brick hard in the span of a year. It happened this year brick hard in November and under 10 feet in March. Drought helps cypress regenerate. The basin should have dried out last year. This would have produced billions of first year seedlings this year. Of them some would have (barring several years of well above average rainfall) made it to the canopy eventually. The basin is not much swamp as it is a reservoir. The Corp flooded to protect property and a hundred year drought will likely fail to recruit any cypress to the canopy.
I have some 3 year old cypress seedling available if any one needs them. They're not nursury plants. Wild and free and genetically diverse. They survived fire and 10 feet of water for a month. PM me if interested.
P.S.
Duck butter and his firm have done some very good work in the field of conservation.
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