This six-minute film describes the discovery of bald cypress trees over 2,000-years old in the forested wetlands of Black River, near Wilmington, North Carolina. Read more at: cypress.uark.edu
I love my home state of NC, and this makes me love it even more. This is fascinating and I want us to preserve this forest and learn as much as we can about it.
If you've ever been camping you know how the woods can restore your soul, and bring peace and comfort to you. Woods of this magnificence must be preserved.
I have greatly enjoyed learning about the study of the age of trees and about cypress trees. I have planted several bald cypress trees myself on my land in Haskell, since finding out about the Arkansas Champion Cypress tree. It's really cool that you are also from AR and trying to preserve trees all over.
What a great video. I enjoyed watching it so much! Thank you for educating us about this area of ancient cypress trees. We all should donate what we can to The Nature Conservancy!
I've been growing this tree in my nursery for 26 years. This video makes me love this tree even more, (if that's possible). This river is definitely on my bucket list.
Beautiful coastline in the east, rolling hills and some small mountains scattered in the middle, and the biggest mountains on the eastern seaboard in the west. It’s an amazing state!
I have 4 beautiful old Bald Cypress in my yard. I measured one it’s over 1000 yrs old . I have one bigger than that one. My trees are bigger then all of them on Hontoon island in Deland Florida love them
@@oldeyeball I don't happen to go around putting holes in things as a rule or by accident & are you an entymologist to know that all insects are indeed harmful?
@@veronicaalleyne Veronica, please don't take my question personal or as an attack. My question is simple; When a core sample is taken, is the hole it leaves in the tree plugged? There are several reasons I am asking this and none are "traps" to start a fight or diminish the work that is being done.
Is there a way you can study these magnificent trees without boring holes in them??? Boring holes for samples has got to compromise the lifespan of the trees in the long-term. You will not live long enough to know if you've harmed them. SMH
Taking a small core of a tree does not hurt it, the impact to the working parts of the trunk are negligible in the large scale of the whole tree and will be quickly healed by the tree. Coring trees is common practice in science and is the best way to obtain needed information without affecting the tree
I was thinking that the trees would have a larger diameter. I've seen larger bald cypress in Georgia. I remember one that you could stand inside years ago as it was rotted out, probably only 50 foot tall as the canopy had long since been blown out.
It really doesn’t hurt the tree. The xylem and phloem that actually draw up water and nutrients from the soil and transport sugars throughout the tree are only a thin layer of the tree and rely on vertical motion. Scraping off a ring around the tree if it’s deep enough is what will hurt the tree because you’ve cut off this transport. A small hole like the one created when coring a tree is negligible in the scale of the entire tree. Also for the record, peeling off the outer bark will not hurt the tree unless you peel off enough that the inner bark (phloem) is exposed or damaged
I wonder if the Everglades has a history as long as this? I know our Cypress trees are old, but I don't think it has been land that long. Three thousand years is a long time and wet all that time!!!!
Everything in Florida got logged in the 20th century. The big cypress got logged in the 40=50's to rebuild Europe. The largest virgin tract left is Corkscrew swamp which has about 700 acres of virgin forest. Even remote places in Fl got logged a long time ago.
Leave all those trees alone,please!They managed till now,but if you start to drill them,exposed them they will just die.....If you are a scientist come up with some other method ,than hurting living creatures,than you can yourself a scientist.
Coring the tree does not hurt it, especially if the tree is very large and it is not done repeatedly. In the large scale of the tree a small hole is negligible and will heal quickly. The trunk provides the purposes of support and transport of water, nutrients, and energy, neither of which will be compromised by a tiny hole. Again remember these trees are feet in diameter and tens or hundreds of feet tall. A hole less than an inch in diameter will not affect it. Scientists train to be able to do this in the least disruptive way possible, trust them
@@JustSomeInternetDude i can kinda understand what u are saying but can u be more specific? Like god or jesus is a myth?? Like my hommies odin, and thor. Im interested in your look on life and our meaning and purpose. If u or i do not believs and anything other then the present the why go on?? Why try and makd a life for our selfs and maybe those around us. Why??
@@adambennett2176 yes just like the Gods of ye olden days, like odin. They were real for the people of that time. Much like gods of today of the various religions, all myths and legends. as far as why we go on, well we are self aware have feelings need to eat and are social. So we hook up and procreate, work for our food and socialise with our friends. It's called living our life. Surely you don't need a myth to tell you all this, it's pretty self explanatory.
I agree with what you saying about the old gods, i beleive they were stories in which to tell the children to strive to have the same characteristics and attributes, morrals, honor, characteristics that make up a Morley good man or women. But then how do we explain our existence and please dont say the big bang. For as u well know our galaxy is vast... in todays soiecty where boy has a choice to be a girl and so on, religion was our way to walk a Moral ground. It basticslly helped western civilization become what it is today.
Without religon there is no moral ground in witch to live our life. No rules no loyalty, no love, god is what brings all that what is together with us. Wether be jesus, odin, or Zeus
people who are mad about tiny holes would really hate woodpeckers and catipillars :D this is a great video. Humans have enough space for us to live on, we should be preserving all the rest. It's important to be good stewards of our environment.
They dont and really it would not help much, all tree that they take sample on will be dead in 50 years. These people dont really care about the trees, they care about themself only.
