Exploring the big cypress trees of Sky Lake
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Two hours and forty five minutes south of Memphis, deep in the Mississippi Delta, is a place called Sky Lake. There is a swamp where the Palmettos grow and the cypress moss that sways in the breeze like ghosts.
In 1997 Simmons family donated more than 700 acres of swamp land in Humphreys County, Mississippi to the state to preserve it. On the property stand the world's tallest cypress trees; Mississippi's own sequoia trees.
Full story and slideshow: www.myfoxmemphi...
This man is a great human being for preserving these magnificent trees forever. His father taught him right. Thank you.
Wonderful story.
I would like to visit sometime!
I love big trees and I had no idea. I am from MS but now live in Washington and we cut down all of our biggest trees. In MS we SAVED them. I am so proud!!!!!!!!
If you are talking about WA state, we have several thousand times more old growth big trees remaining than they do in Mississippi...or any other state outside of the Western ones.
What a treasure in the Mississippi Delta.
Them trees have many stories to tell!
Thank you Mr. Simmons
Say what you will but I love Mississippi
Awesome he saved those giants!
Thank your mr Simmons your field i walk across to slay ducks makes my trip 100 times easier and safer wish you still had that donation bucket up I would fill it slap full
Peaceful place it’s a shame the tree senator in Florida got burnt down but this place looks peaceful
What type of cypress are these? I see they put out knees. Are they Bald Cypress? Something else?
It's either a bald cypress or a pond cypress, if I was a betting man, I'd say they are bald cypress trees.
Donating land to the State isnt always the best idea, they may decide to sell it to developers when they have a budget shortfall or build a 4 lane Highway through it
And there's giant people in those pre Indian mounds.
The water is back in this swamp and it is not now possible to walk about in it. Just the boardwalk.
Holy shit!
Just say NO to developers, oil and gas moguls and destroyer of our precious trees and environment.
Oil and gas exploration is necessary, but let's protect those ancient cathedral father time trees
That's how it was here. Plantations with trains and workers cleared out almost every giant left. Then they planted crops after destroying the largest thing's alive on earth
Why is this recommendation
97 feet around wow that can't be true
Jason Caulfield yes it can.trust me.spent a lot of time on chipola river in north Florida.there are monsters out there
That shit is crazy
@@pariswalker4907 That's pretty awesome to have such big 🌳 tree's out there
Your a good man mark