Louisiana Life Magazine and Our Plant Story Podcast Highlight the Louisiana Purchase Cypress Legacy
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| Eagle Lake, Union Parish |
We are often getting newcomers to our LPCL Blog-- frequently from those wanting to know the age of large old cypress they've come across. Two recent published accounts of what we're up to will introduce new visitors to our efforts to landmark old growth cypress throughout Louisiana. The first is an episode from Sally Flatman's podcast "Our Plant Story"-- a recently deceased Louisiana bald cypress, bequeathed by Napolean in 1803 to a Loire Valley Chateau in France is a jumping off point for Sally's interview with myself and with Gael du Halgouet, proprieter of the Chateau des Grotteaux, where the cypress grew and thrived for over two hundred years. Sally's program makes an illuminating connection between the history of this Louisiana cypress transplanted to France and the LPCL's landmarking of cypress throughout Louisiana that were "Alive in 1803". The podcast interview can be heard here:
We're also appreciative of David Jenkins cover story in the May-June issue of Louisiana Life: "Hiding in Plain Sight-- Documenting Louisiana's Surviving Old Growth Bald Cypress" David's evocative photos of the endearing and enduring centuries old cypress still thriving throughout Louisiana compliment his illuminating descriptions of his visits to several of LPCL's landmarked cypress:
Documenting Louisiana’s Surviving Old-growth Bald Cypress Trees - louisianalife.com
Always looking for new leads on old growth cypress throughout Louisiana, particularly in the Parishes I have yet to find cypress "Alive in 1803": Allen, Beauregard, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron, Claiborne, E. Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Lincoln, Madison, Ouachita, , Red River, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Helena, Vermillion, Vernon, W Baton Rouge, West Carrol.
And we're always o the lookout for cypress that may be larger in circumference/older than ones we've already landmarked in the other parishes in which century old cypress have been identified. (See our Parish Inventory tab above on our blog home page)
Please contact:
Harvey Stern
LaPurchaseCypressLegacy@gmail.com
