Down along the state line in Frankford exists Delaware’s largest freshwater wetland and contiguous block of forest, and perhaps its last truly wild land: the Great Cypress Swamp. At one time, the ...
The volunteers tromped through the marsh, trying to avoid patches of brackish, black mud that threatened to engulf their shoes if they weren’t careful. In each hand, they carried spindly red swamp ...
Southern Sussex County's Great Cypress Swamp used to encompass over 50,000 acres, but was nearly destroyed by centuries of fires, logging, ditching and draining. Today, nonprofit Delaware Wild Lands ...