director of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, off Immokalee Road in northern Collier County. Many massive bald cypress trees, one at least 400 years old and more than 6 feet in diameter, fell across the ...

A 2.25-mile boardwalk curves through the sanctuary's pine flatwood, wet prairie, around a marsh, and finally into the largest old-growth bald cypress ... the Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary ...

Cokscrew Swamp Sanctuary consists of 13,000 acres in the heart of the Corkscrew watershed. It's home to the largest tract of virgin bald cypress in the world and was once the breeding site of the ...

One of the chief menaces to Audubon's beloved Corkscrew ... the swamp is to return to health, it’s essential. Its 13,450 acres, which shelter the largest remaining, old-growth bald cypress ...

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is home to some of the oldest cypress trees on the planet, and it's one of the Naples' areas ecological gems. Some trees at the swamp were alive when early Europeans ...

Under certain lighting conditions, the swamp turns into a giant, luminous rainbow broken up by the shadows of bald cypress trees (Taxodium distichum) and cypress knees — cone-shaped humps that ...

Bald-cypress is a typical tree of this vast wetland, often growing within the swamp areas, draped in moss, and providing food, nesting places and shelter for many of the animals found here. Twice a ...