As Europe was submerged in the Dark Ages, a sprout was pushing up in a faraway swamp. It grew into an enormous tree that eventually starred on television before making its way to a lumber yard in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) –Three suspects have been arrested for stealing thousands of cypress logs in Franklin Parish. A joint investigation with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry ...

John Manuel starts his workday on the Tchefuncte River, near its mouth at Lake Pontchartrain. It's a cloudless late morning, but as he accelerates past ritzy waterfront properties in Madisonville, the ...

(Columbia-AP) Sept. 5, 2004 - A group of Pee Dee entrepreneurs brag they have the oldest workable wood in the world. They hope the ancient cypress logs discovered in a sand mine near Johnsonville will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archival photos of lumberman cutting cypress trees in Livingston Parish around the 1930s. (Courtesy of Southeastern Louisiana ...

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. - Karen Joy Fowler Author Karen Joy Fowler has it right. When it comes to "immortal" trees in Illinois and the Eastern U.S., none have ...