Three Sisters Swamp: The Oldest Bald Cypress Forest on the Planet 

The Nature Conservancy is my favorite environmental group

I feel so fortunate that RU-vid presented me with this precious work of yours. Thank you so much. What a majestic place! I have 2 Bald Cypresses that a nursery accidentally sent me when I ordered 2 Red Weigelia shrubs. I told them not to worry about it because I loved them but I didn’t know anything about them so I started searching for info on RU-vid last week and when I opened the app tonight, this video randomly came up. That place looks so awesome. I’m so thankful that it’s protected. I pray to God that God will continue to protect it from selfish, godless and reckless hypocrites who love money and not the beautiful planet that we live on. I live in southern Illinois, so much of the forest here I’ve been devastated by ignorant, farmers and irresponsible timber harvesters. They say we had 14,000,000 acres about 200 years ago, I think we’re down to about three million acres of woodlands now. It is so tragic when I think about it, it has caused me to weep. I am very lucky to live next to about 10 acres of Marshland, a riparian zone off of the Kaskaskia river here in South Western Illinois. I am planning on putting these two bald cypress trees that I have in the marsh land as that would be a perfect environment for them to thrive in. They are both about 3 feet tall right now and they are planted in my yard. I am praying to God that he will protect the forest around the world so that wise and intelligent people may enjoy them, and so foolish people may become wise as they look upon the awesome and precious trees that we have within our forest. Please keep up the good work. I hope and pray that you will make more films like this. May God bless you to do so. PS…there is a really precious and rare nature reserve in Southern Illinois called, “Prarie La Rue Pine Hills.” If you get a chance, please check it out. It is worthy of a lovely little short film like this, me thinks.

Awesome video guys ❤️ I hope nothing contaminates this paradise swamp.

Beautiful Swamp

Swamps are super cool, especially with Cypress.

This is insane quality despite the low sub count. Great work👍

That was beautiful. We’ve got some really lovely bald Cypress swamps here in Arkansas and I love to just sit really still and listen. Every season sounds completely distinct. They are such busy, beautiful places. Your drone shots were so well done!

Beautiful video and beautiful trees. Thank you.

Amazing work!

Normally I’d expect a swamp to be deep muck but this is clean sand you can walk on? That’s amazing

Really great piece. Especially the closing videography was fantastic!

These giants are incredible. There is nothing like the old Cyprus forests. My favorite tree is the Kashmere Cypress, it is like a weeping willow, and in the fall, when it drops it's cones, and the leaves turn a light brown color, they are incredible beautiful. There are several growing across from where I work around a pond and sometimes I sit in the parking lot eating my lunch and just watch them, they are incredible. I live near the Great Dismal Swamp and sometimes take a flatbottom out and just look at the trees. Absolutely awesome. Thanks for a really great video. I have downloaded it and will watch it over and over. Never get enough.

Something very reverent in those waters and trees. The Ivory Billed Woodpecker probably perched on those old Cypress. I paddled the South River which is an upstream tributary of this area a few years ago. Beautiful.

Wonderful video, very well done! I love canoeing through Cypress swamps. I have several near me here in southwest Indiana, which is home to some of the most northern bald cypress trees. Posey County is home to Twin Swamps nature preserve and Hovey Lake which have some very old stands of cypress trees. Also Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee is another wonderful area nearby to explore with some beautiful stands of bald cypress. I am also near Heron Pond and the Cache River in southern Illinois. These are some beautiful areas to explore as well. I especially enjoy the books, The Great Cypress Swamps by John V. Dennis and Ewel and Odums, Cypress Swamps book published by the Center for Wetlands at the Univ. of Florida. These are great reference books for anyone interested in learning more about swamps. I really enjoyed the excellent lighting of your video. This can be a challenge inside the swamps. You did a fantastic job creating this presentation. Thanks again for sharing.

Great video. I am raising some bald cypress from seed I found in Douglas lake in east Tn. I'm going to plant them along side of my creekside property to combat erosion. I plan on fishing for redbreast sunfish in the Carolinas on one of those cypress covered rivers. Bucket list stuff. Beautiful

Awesome brother 👏🏽 thank you for the video

God’s creation is amazing and must be protected. Excellent video. Thank you.

I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the Three Sisters swamp a few weeks ago on a beautiful spring day. What an amazing, magical place. Some of these trees have twisted, split and battered trunks shaped like fantastical creatures, yet they were growing fresh, green leaves. That makes me wonder what the indigenous people of these lands thought of these trees.

I love this swamp and would like to visit it one day. I googled it after reading "Where the crawdads sing" book by Delia Owens.

Made my first trip thru this place yesterday ...what a awesome place...thnx for the nice video

Super cool. We are growing some up here in Missouri.

Good Deal

There are trees this large in middle GA. There aren't as many, but there are a few as large, or larger than these.

What's the best access point into 3 Sisters swamp? Thanks!

what codec do you use for your drone footage

I bet its creepy to camp there at night

extremely old trees are always the exceptions not the norm

Are there alligator out there? I know there are some one to that area.

Canetuck

Awesome.Thank you!