Most people here in Illinois have no idea that Bald Cypress trees exist here in the southern part state. The ancient Ohio River is never really discussed either because of all the trees cover up the landscape so well. All you see is elevation changes like a hill as you go north / south. Thanks for the history and tour!
I am a local. My Dad use to tell me stories of the Ancient Ohio River path. This is the only other time that I have heard it discussed. How he knew of this, I have no idea except maybe passed down through generations. Thank you for this video!
Very Cool! Your Dad sounds like a smart guy. I, also had never heard of it and I’ve lived here all my life. I don’t understand why are education didn’t involve a glimpse of the local history and geology of the area. It really is a fascinating place! Thanks for watching
My pleasure! It is very interesting how much history is hid in plain sight. Taking these small glimpses into out of the way places is a great joy. Thanks for watching!
The Ohio River, as we know it, did not exist before the last ice age. What was the ancestral Ohio River actually flowed Northeast to where Pittsburgh is now located, where it joined the Monongahela River. The Mon flowed north, up what is now the Beaver River Valley and emptied into the St. Lawrence River, as Lake Erie did not exist either at that time. The glaciation blocked the northern flow of the Mon, creating a giant lake that covered much of Northern West Virginia and Southwestern PA. Where Pittsburgh is now was under 500 feet of water. The water kept backing up the ancestral Ohio River until it breached lower hills causing the flow to reverse from Northeast to the current Southwest direction. Geologists think as the lower hills were breached, it caused a very quick draining of "Lake Monongahela" and the current Monongahela, Allegheny. and Ohio River Valleys were cut down through the rock very quickly due to the massive volume of water being released. The Snake River Canyon out west was also formed in the same quick way.
Hi Gary! I just now discovered your video and channel and it's a gold mine! Sadly when I was younger, geology didn't interest me much, but now I can't get enough of it! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and explorations!
Thank You! I can also say along with you I wasn’t interested in any of the sciences, but after years of hiking started to wonder the “why’s” of what I was seeing. The internet has truly opened up research documents that you can download and dig in deep to whatever is your realm of curiosity. Thanks for watch watching!
Hello. There is a timber frame cabin at the wolff memorial wetlands. It's where the trial meets railroad tracks. It is built from cypress logs . It has a original repair made with square nails. My guess it's early 1800s. The cypress logs have been exposed to rain at least 100 years and no rot. You can't even fit a razor blade in the timber joints.
I have images of myself and my family on that record bald cypress. I grew up swimming in the Cache and my grandfather lives on the bank and ran a committee that aimed to preserve the Cache. Seeing other people appreciate the land I grew up on is amazing.
How beautiful that area is!! You asked if there was any part of this i enjoyed? Yes, all of it. You asked if i learned anything, i did not know, before? Yes, all of it, really. I mean, i knew some of the ecosystem dynamics. But, wow, the whole thing was interesting!
Great video. I did camp at Karnak once when spending the weekend riding the Tunnel Hill Trail. The display there showing the history of the tree harvesting operation that was based there, contrasted with the current state of things with nature doing its best to reclaim what was lost. I share your gratitude to the people who guided the movement to preserve some of this region.
Thank You! The Tunnel Hill trail is definitely a nice addition to the area. As you’re said it truly is interesting to see how the land recovers when people take notice and pass it down to future generations. Thanks for watching!
It’s amazing of how much information there is out there today. I was born, raised, hunted, fished, camped and ran around this entire area in the 1980’s until I joined the army in 88 and never heard of this until 2024.
So, true! I’ve lived here all my life and was unaware of just how unique our area is. The internet has opened up the history of our area to those that are curious, but even today you must look deep , because of the vast amount of information available on everything. Thanks for watching!
Beautiful video. I've never heard of this area. As someone from Cincinnati I've always been impressed by the age of the Ohio river and how long its really been around. There are fossil parks in the surrounding area of Cincy and its just so interesting how old this land we are on is.
Thank You! Very interesting about the fossil parks in your area of Cincinnati. There are many stories up and down the Ohio and I hope to tell a few more. Thanks for watching!
I'm local to this area. There was a historic earthquake in the 1800's that shook windows in Boston here. It altered the path of the ohio river as well. Thanks for the vid. Was just standing on that lower cache dock couple weeks ago. Beautiful place. Wise to go in winter, almost suicide mission in summer with the water mocassins. They are EVERYWHERE. 1st vid I've seen, just subscribed.
Fascinating event and and one not really discussed a lot nowadays outside of people interested in history. I’ve always wondered how much it altered the Shawnee Hills and the foothills of the Ozarks. I was down there about a month ago and saw 2. Thanks for watching 👍
Sorry I just can't remember where I seen it, but somewhere on probably a government site. I had seen a bunch of LIDAR data that covers this whole area. You can actually see the transitions made over a serious amount of time. Which would obviously help with your curiosity. Hundreds of years of transition. If I come apon it again. I'll send ya a link. Good video. Am also from the area. Nice to see more than the trail norms. We got a lot down here. Time for people to see some of it.
@robertderekfeazel22 if you do come across the link to the changes , please post it. I would love to see it. I love learning about the history of the area. I live in Cincinnati. ❤
I found this so surprising and amazing. The only place I've seen cypress like this was in south Carolina. I live in northeast ohio and had no idea. Thank you so much.
At the dams in Ohio, pictures of the ancient river path is shown but I don't recall Cypress trees. Thanks great vid! If you're on the Miss. river, maybe you could visit the Miss. River Indigenous ruins/settlements
I visited the area while traveling to Cape Girardeau with my son for several AAU basketball tournaments and was very intrigued by the landscape. We live upriver in Louisville. This was very informative and I hope to return with time to explore myself soon.
I was there a couple of times , but I seen more of it from your post. Thank you. There is another swamp just off US Route 45 just north of Urbana. This swamp lets you see what the ground was like that the city of Champaign, Urbana were built on .
I really enjoyed the mix of nature and history in this video. I think it would be neat if you did a video on the history of mining in the area. I'm a few hours east in Ohio, but we like to come to the area to find remnants of fluorite at the old mines that are still accessible. We always make time to enjoy the natural and historical scenery of the area also.
Thank you for sharing this! I've thought about hiking in this area, but it's a long drive for me, and hiking in swamps is a little intimidating. It looks beautiful!
My Pleasure! It's truly is a beautiful place. A great place to start out is Heron Pond. It is very accessible year round. Hope you make it down to explore!
Pretty cool, this is the first vid I have seen of yours. I am from Ohio and never knew there cypress this far north. I would like to see the old section of the Cache River valley that is now dry
wow i live in villa ridge and i didnt know we had such beautiful places near by i really need to visit someday for the most part around here it never seems like there much around but fields and swamps that you cant really explore thank you for this wonderful view of the areas near me in my state
My pleasure! I enjoy taking lesser known places and learning history and how it has impacted us. There is history Everywhere sometimes you just have to dig a little to find the story. Thanks for watching 👍
I live in Vienna and I was familiar with wild cat bluff but you have showed me a few other places I am unfamiliar with and definitely need to go visit. Thank you so much and a wonderful video.
I have lived all my home life in western Kentucky near the Ohio river. I worked on the rivers for 50 Years of which 46 as a towboat captain. I have passed the Cache river often on the upper Mississippi above Cairo and on the Ohio river above Cairo and never knew the history behind it. Thanks for sharing this information on the video, it's very interesting 👏
You are an untrepid explorer! Thanks for such great information! Did I miss the video of the dry, cracked river bed intriducing the video that drew me to open this?
Southern Illinois is a beautiful , fascinating area to explore. Thanks for the lessons about the Cache river area. Ive seen Herron pond. But never the Cache River valley
We drove theough that area last week on the way to Arkansas. I was surprised to see cypress trees in the swamps on the side of the highway. Never knew they were that far north.
Kentucky owns all of the Kentucky river the full length of our state. The dotted line near the Illinois side is wrong, their boundary does not extend into the river. This goes all the way back to when Kentucky was part of Virginia.
You may be right but I read a few years back that the state lines are based on where the shoreline was on the northern edge back when the state lines were drawn. The waterlevel has risen since then due to the Corp of Engineers raising it for safe navigation of water vessels, such as barges. This moved the shoreline north of the original state line. So the stateline is actually out in the water, with most of the river in KYs ownership and a small strip on the northern edge belonging to other states. That's why when Indiana started gambling boats they put them on the river on their side of the stateline.
That earthquake in 1812 changed a lot of topography in Ohio.. The mouth of the Scioto River was moved 2 miles to the east.. Glaciers came down to mid-Ohio causing the north part of the state to be flater than the land of the south part of the state..
Thanks for this great effort about the Cashe River valley. Never realized that the Bald Cypress was a dedacious conifer. I worked as a carpenter in chemical plants and we used a lot of long leaf pine along with stainless steel, they were very chemical resistant. Klnda a shame to use such georgous material for such mundane purposes, but such is the nature of industry. I wonder how many of our forests dissipeared supplying fuel for steam and railroad sleepers? Imagine lining wooden ties coast to coast and north to south. What a waste of Gods beautiful forests. Anyway, thanks for showing these lovely and peculiar forests. I'm the type who will go way out of my way to view a majestic tree. Cheers!
Thank You! They cypress are a strange bunch and well worth going out of the way. We are all a product of our modern industry. The things we take for granted are built upon all the natural resources we see around us. That is a great question on how many forests were needed to fuel our expansion. Thanks for watching!
Doesn’t the Cache River run through Arkansas too? I’m fairly certain I read a research paper about a very productive Dalton People’s archeological site located next to it.
It was a twig. Back then, we used to just wander into the woods and find saplings of what we wanted. Also have another property that has giant oaks and a huge palm that we gathered all as babies. The place we got them from was all woods and these days it’s all houses. I feel like we did a good thing
Great question! The simple answer is no. The longer answer is they once were and actually it wasn't that long ago. I found this in the Audubon Reader and John James Audubon heading downriver in 1810 on the Ohio to where the Mississippi River comes in. He talks about getting word that the Mississippi was frozen over (it was December) so he stops at where the Cache River comes into the Ohio and how a tribe of 50 Shawnee's we camped on its bank. Audubon states they: "...had moreover chose this spot for an encampment, to reap the benefit of the good harvest of pecan nuts; and to hunt the innumerable dear, BEARS, and raccoons ..." Very interesting to say the least!
So did you see any pecan trees there? I would so love to have a pecan tree but I didn't think they would grow in southern Indiana. We had a cypress tree on the place we owned 20 years ago. It might have been planted by the B&O Railroad because it was a tank pond for the steam engines in the latter 1800s@@MarksofCuriosity
I knew the Cache began in the Anna City Cemetery. Was not aware the Asian carp were present. Before viewing this episode I would have stayed on the board walk. Really thought the burnt trees were neat. Are they from the Indian traditions ? Thank you.
Excellent video. Just thought I'd share my thoughts on swamps. A swamp only has a negative connotation when it's connected to politics. Actually, It's not just the "swamp". Everything assumes a seedy stinky messy kind of mental image when it's connected to politics!
Thank You! Couldn't agree more with the terminology of swamp. I thought it important to interchange the two in the video, just to show how it doesn't always mean what it actually is - Thanks for watching!
Ever wonder if the corp of eng . would shot grade and dig out 4-6 ft deep maybe 50ft or more and open the river slowly back up too be a cool little river once again ??!
Interesting! I have a Harold Fisk poster of this area on my wall showing probable historic courses of the Mississippi and some of the Ohio. It is not out of the question that the river in centuries to come may reclaim this ancient route. Thanks for watching!
The oldest ones in our area are said to be around 1,000 years old. The oldest cypress in the world is said to be over 2,500 years old. Thanks for watching!
Great question! Actually I thought this would have been asked by now. The answer is there is another section of video that was originally in this video, but as I edited it just didn’t make sense to leave in, so it ended up in another video th-cam.com/video/lgsrn4vqpbY/w-d-xo.html The thumbnail was made before the final edit for this video - Forgotten River. It was so appropriate for the video that it was left.
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He's like confused about the burn marks on the older cypress trees and whatnot. But he knows nothing about meltology and our real history.not his-story but the real story
Most people here in Illinois have no idea that Bald Cypress trees exist here in the southern part state. The ancient Ohio
River is never really discussed either because of all the trees cover up the landscape so well. All you see is elevation
changes like a hill as you go north / south. Thanks for the history and tour!
I am a local. My Dad use to tell me stories of the Ancient Ohio River path. This is the only other time that I have heard it discussed. How he knew of this, I have no idea except maybe passed down through generations. Thank you for this video!
Very Cool! Your Dad sounds like a smart guy. I, also had never heard of it and I’ve lived here all my life. I don’t understand why are education didn’t involve a glimpse of the local history and geology of the area. It really is a fascinating place! Thanks for watching
Thank you sir for taking us thru a dry Ohio swamp. It was very vert entertaining. True blessing.
My pleasure! It is very interesting how much history is hid in plain sight. Taking these small glimpses into out of the way places is a great joy. Thanks for watching!
The Ohio River, as we know it, did not exist before the last ice age. What was the ancestral Ohio River actually flowed Northeast to where Pittsburgh is now located, where it joined the Monongahela River. The Mon flowed north, up what is now the Beaver River Valley and emptied into the St. Lawrence River, as Lake Erie did not exist either at that time. The glaciation blocked the northern flow of the Mon, creating a giant lake that covered much of Northern West Virginia and Southwestern PA. Where Pittsburgh is now was under 500 feet of water. The water kept backing up the ancestral Ohio River until it breached lower hills causing the flow to reverse from Northeast to the current Southwest direction. Geologists think as the lower hills were breached, it caused a very quick draining of "Lake Monongahela" and the current Monongahela, Allegheny. and Ohio River Valleys were cut down through the rock very quickly due to the massive volume of water being released. The Snake River Canyon out west was also formed in the same quick way.
Hi Gary! I just now discovered your video and channel and it's a gold mine! Sadly when I was younger, geology didn't interest me much, but now I can't get enough of it! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and explorations!
Thank You! I can also say along with you I wasn’t interested in any of the sciences, but after years of hiking started to wonder the “why’s” of what I was seeing. The internet has truly opened up research documents that you can download and dig in deep to whatever is your realm of curiosity. Thanks for watch watching!
Hello. There is a timber frame cabin at the wolff memorial wetlands. It's where the trial meets railroad tracks. It is built from cypress logs . It has a original repair made with square nails. My guess it's early 1800s. The cypress logs have been exposed to rain at least 100 years and no rot. You can't even fit a razor blade in the timber joints.
Very Interesting!
I have images of myself and my family on that record bald cypress. I grew up swimming in the Cache and my grandfather lives on the bank and ran a committee that aimed to preserve the Cache. Seeing other people appreciate the land I grew up on is amazing.
Very Cool! We thank your grandfather for all his work on preserving this unique environment.
How beautiful that area is!! You asked if there was any part of this i enjoyed? Yes, all of it. You asked if i learned anything, i did not know, before? Yes, all of it, really. I mean, i knew some of the ecosystem dynamics. But, wow, the whole thing was interesting!
Great video. I did camp at Karnak once when spending the weekend riding the Tunnel Hill Trail. The display there showing the history of the tree harvesting operation that was based there, contrasted with the current state of things with nature doing its best to reclaim what was lost. I share your gratitude to the people who guided the movement to preserve some of this region.
Thank You! The Tunnel Hill trail is definitely a nice addition to the area. As you’re said it truly is interesting to see how the land recovers when people take notice and pass it down to future generations. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing the highlights of your trip.
A beautiful homage to Gary, a true renaissance man. Love to his family.
Renaissance Man - I like it 👍. Thanks for the well wishes and commenting!
It’s amazing of how much information there is out there today. I was born, raised, hunted, fished, camped and ran around this entire area in the 1980’s until I joined the army in 88 and never heard of this until 2024.
So, true! I’ve lived here all my life and was unaware of just how unique our area is. The internet has opened up the history of our area to those that are curious, but even today you must look deep , because of the vast amount of information available on everything. Thanks for watching!
Such a fantastic journey... excellent video production. Thx for inspiration of places to venture❤
Beautiful video. I've never heard of this area. As someone from Cincinnati I've always been impressed by the age of the Ohio river and how long its really been around. There are fossil parks in the surrounding area of Cincy and its just so interesting how old this land we are on is.
Thank You! Very interesting about the fossil parks in your area of Cincinnati. There are many stories up and down the Ohio and I hope to tell a few more. Thanks for watching!
I'm local to this area. There was a historic earthquake in the 1800's that shook windows in Boston here. It altered the path of the ohio river as well. Thanks for the vid. Was just standing on that lower cache dock couple weeks ago. Beautiful place. Wise to go in winter, almost suicide mission in summer with the water mocassins. They are EVERYWHERE. 1st vid I've seen, just subscribed.
Fascinating event and and one not really discussed a lot nowadays outside of people interested in history. I’ve always wondered how much it altered the Shawnee Hills and the foothills of the Ozarks. I was down there about a month ago and saw 2. Thanks for watching 👍
Sorry I just can't remember where I seen it, but somewhere on probably a government site. I had seen a bunch of LIDAR data that covers this whole area. You can actually see the transitions made over a serious amount of time. Which would obviously help with your curiosity. Hundreds of years of transition. If I come apon it again. I'll send ya a link. Good video. Am also from the area. Nice to see more than the trail norms. We got a lot down here. Time for people to see some of it.
Good History😊
@robertderekfeazel22 if you do come across the link to the changes , please post it. I would love to see it. I love learning about the history of the area. I live in Cincinnati. ❤
The New Madrid fault is overdue.
I found this so surprising and amazing. The only place I've seen cypress like this was in south Carolina. I live in northeast ohio and had no idea. Thank you so much.
At the dams in Ohio, pictures of the ancient river path is shown but I don't recall Cypress trees. Thanks great vid! If you're on the Miss. river, maybe you could visit the Miss. River Indigenous ruins/settlements
I visited the area while traveling to Cape Girardeau with my son for several AAU basketball tournaments and was very intrigued by the landscape. We live upriver in Louisville. This was very informative and I hope to return with time to explore myself soon.
Very cool! Louisville is a great town full of river history. I hope to return and to do some video of the area. Thanks for watching!
You're just the best. Thank you for this review. Brilliant.
Thanks for your kind words! It really means a lot!
I was there a couple of times , but I seen more of it from your post. Thank you.
There is another swamp just off US Route 45 just north of Urbana. This swamp lets you see what the ground was like that the city of Champaign, Urbana were built on .
It's a more extensive area than I first thought. That swamp sounds interesting! Thanks for the comment and watching!
Thank you for this. I did not know any of this from previous visits. I will check it all out on my next trip there!
My pleasure! It's definitely worth a visit. Thanks for watching and commenting
Fantastic video exposing some gems!!
Thank you! It truly is a beautiful place. Thanks for watching!
NEVER knew this existed! Thank you!
My pleasure! It’s an interesting place.
I really enjoyed the mix of nature and history in this video. I think it would be neat if you did a video on the history of mining in the area. I'm a few hours east in Ohio, but we like to come to the area to find remnants of fluorite at the old mines that are still accessible. We always make time to enjoy the natural and historical scenery of the area also.
Two of my favorite subjects interwoven. That would be interesting on the mining history of Southern Illinois. Thanks for watching!
That was so pretty and very interesting to hear about. I will definitely share this with friends. ❤
Thanks for sharing! It is a beautiful area. Thanks for watching!
My grandfather used to tell me about walking across the Ohio river before the dams.
That's very interesting! I have read the same thing about people crossing the Mississippi River from the Illinois to Cape Girardeau, MO
Great time to visit as we are in a bit of a drought in the upper ohio valley
Thank you for sharing this! I've thought about hiking in this area, but it's a long drive for me, and hiking in swamps is a little intimidating. It looks beautiful!
My Pleasure! It's truly is a beautiful place. A great place to start out is Heron Pond. It is very accessible year round. Hope you make it down to explore!
Pretty cool, this is the first vid I have seen of yours. I am from Ohio and never knew there cypress this far north. I would like to see the old section of the Cache River valley that is now dry
wow i live in villa ridge and i didnt know we had such beautiful places near by i really need to visit someday for the most part around here it never seems like there much around but fields and swamps that you cant really explore thank you for this wonderful view of the areas near me in my state
My pleasure! I enjoy taking lesser known places and learning history and how it has impacted us. There is history Everywhere sometimes you just have to dig a little to find the story. Thanks for watching 👍
I live in Vienna and I was familiar with wild cat bluff but you have showed me a few other places I am unfamiliar with and definitely need to go visit. Thank you so much and a wonderful video.
Thank You! It definitely a beautiful area and well worth getting out there and exploring. Thanks for watching!
Stunning.
Thank you for this video!
My pleasure!
I have lived all my home life in western Kentucky near the Ohio river. I worked on the rivers for 50 Years of which 46 as a towboat captain. I have passed the Cache river often on the upper Mississippi above Cairo and on the Ohio river above Cairo and never knew the history behind it. Thanks for sharing this information on the video, it's very interesting 👏
My pleasure to pass this information along. Wow, what a career! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the safety information.
Great video. Thanks
My pleasure!
Congratulations I'm your 1000th subscriber love the video thank you for sharing be safe and may your higher power be with you and your loved ones
YEAAAHH!!!! Thank you for the heads up. I was waiting, then I but got busy. Thank you for pushing the channel over🎉🎉👍 and thanks for the well wishes
I’m a karnak boy always will be!!! Grew up there miss it everyday…
I had no idea. Thank you.
My pleasure!
You are an untrepid explorer! Thanks for such great information! Did I miss the video of the dry, cracked river bed intriducing the video that drew me to open this?
Terrific shots. Only drone work could make it better.. Thanks .It's Wed. Aug. 7, 2024 . St.Joseph, MO.
Enjoyed the whole video all the way from Alabama.
Thank You!
I used to go arrowhead hunting in the Cache back in the 80s.
It’s truly amazing how deep the history is in this area! Thanks for watching.
Southern Illinois is a beautiful , fascinating area to explore. Thanks for the lessons about the Cache river area. Ive seen Herron pond. But never the Cache River valley
Indeed it is! Heron Pond is one of the best to have visited. Thanks for watching!
We drove theough that area last week on the way to Arkansas. I was surprised to see cypress trees in the swamps on the side of the highway. Never knew they were that far north.
Great video, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you very much.
Art from Ohio
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
Kentucky owns all of the Kentucky river the full length of our state. The dotted line near the Illinois side is wrong, their boundary does not extend into the river. This goes all the way back to when Kentucky was part of Virginia.
Yup, that's a video in itself! The interaction of surveyors and land grants up and down the Ohio is fascinating. Thanks for watching!
You may be right but I read a few years back that the state lines are based on where the shoreline was on the northern edge back when the state lines were drawn. The waterlevel has risen since then due to the Corp of Engineers raising it for safe navigation of water vessels, such as barges. This moved the shoreline north of the original state line. So the stateline is actually out in the water, with most of the river in KYs ownership and a small strip on the northern edge belonging to other states. That's why when Indiana started gambling boats they put them on the river on their side of the stateline.
That earthquake in 1812 changed a lot of topography in Ohio.. The mouth of the Scioto River was moved 2 miles to the east.. Glaciers came down to mid-Ohio causing the north part of the state to be flater than the land of the south part of the state..
fascinating thank you
the Mississippian culture buried their greats under Cyprus trees
that could be a grave yard of heros
Thank You! Interesting perspective on the cypress trees. Thanks for watching!
Let’s go let’s go adventure 🌺❤️🇺🇸👵✌️🎉🌎
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Great video!
Thank you! Thanks for commenting and watching.
Thanks for this great effort about the Cashe River valley. Never realized that the Bald Cypress was a dedacious conifer. I worked as a carpenter in chemical plants and we used a lot of long leaf pine along with stainless steel, they were very chemical resistant. Klnda a shame to use such georgous material for such mundane purposes, but such is the nature of industry. I wonder how many of our forests dissipeared supplying fuel for steam and railroad sleepers? Imagine lining wooden ties coast to coast and north to south. What a waste of Gods beautiful forests. Anyway, thanks for showing these lovely and peculiar forests. I'm the type who will go way out of my way to view a majestic tree. Cheers!
Thank You! They cypress are a strange bunch and well worth going out of the way. We are all a product of our modern industry. The things we take for granted are built upon all the natural resources we see around us. That is a great question on how many forests were needed to fuel our expansion. Thanks for watching!
Not a waste at all we with Gods grace built one of the greatest nations on earth !!
@@jefferyschirm4103 past tense, right?
That was awesome
Last time I was there, that hollow tree had a family of skunks living in it. Needless to say, I didn't get to explore it. Lol
That would have been bad. lol -
Very interesting
Thank you! A lot of cool things in that area.
Really interesting…. Thank You
My pleasure!
That was interesting. Traveled over that area on the highways for years and didn’t know
Thank You! It's amazing what is hidden around us.
Thank you
My pleasure!
I swear I saw the kt boundary in those rocks. Or maybe I was just hoping I'd see it and thought I saw it and didn't actually see it.
It is some wild rock!
Doesn’t the Cache River run through Arkansas too? I’m fairly certain I read a research paper about a very productive Dalton People’s archeological site located next to it.
There's a couple other ancient river beds like this. One near Portsmouth, Ohio and another near Huntington, West Virginia.
Yes, was on high alert. I personally have not encountered one on the trail. Did see a dead one on the road, though.
I have a cypress tree in my back yard and a bunch of knees. I’m on the west coast of central Florida, two minutes from the beach
Very cool! What an honor to be a steward on such an interesting tree.
@@MarksofCuriosity My brother planted it prob 30 years ago
It was a twig. Back then, we used to just wander into the woods and find saplings of what we wanted. Also have another property that has giant oaks and a huge palm that we gathered all as babies. The place we got them from was all woods and these days it’s all houses. I feel like we did a good thing
Are there bears that live in the area? Those Cypress trees look like they would be good hibernation spots.
Great question! The simple answer is no. The longer answer is they once were and actually it wasn't that long ago. I found this in the Audubon Reader and John James Audubon heading downriver in 1810 on the Ohio to where the Mississippi River comes in. He talks about getting word that the Mississippi was frozen over (it was December) so he stops at where the Cache River comes into the Ohio and how a tribe of 50 Shawnee's we camped on its bank.
Audubon states they:
"...had moreover chose this spot for an encampment, to reap the benefit of the good harvest of pecan nuts; and to hunt the innumerable dear, BEARS, and raccoons ..."
Very interesting to say the least!
@@MarksofCuriosity Thank you!
So did you see any pecan trees there? I would so love to have a pecan tree but I didn't think they would grow in southern Indiana. We had a cypress tree on the place we owned 20 years ago. It might have been planted by the B&O Railroad because it was a tank pond for the steam engines in the latter 1800s@@MarksofCuriosity
I knew the Cache began in the Anna City Cemetery.
Was not aware the Asian carp were present.
Before viewing this episode I would have stayed on the board walk.
Really thought the burnt trees were neat.
Are they from the Indian traditions ?
Thank you.
Interesting - there’s a lot to explore there. Don’t know about the burn areas. Maybe a controller burn at some point?
So when did the Ohio change course and leave that valley through which the Cache now flows?
Excellent video. Just thought I'd share my thoughts on swamps. A swamp only has a negative connotation when it's connected to politics. Actually, It's not just the "swamp". Everything assumes a seedy stinky messy kind of mental image when it's connected to politics!
Thank You! Couldn't agree more with the terminology of swamp. I thought it important to interchange the two in the video, just to show how it doesn't always mean what it actually is - Thanks for watching!
Ever wonder if the corp of eng . would shot grade and dig out 4-6 ft deep maybe 50ft or more and open the river slowly back up too be a cool little river once again ??!
Interesting! I have a Harold Fisk poster of this area on my wall showing probable historic courses of the Mississippi and some of the Ohio. It is not out of the question that the river in centuries to come may reclaim this ancient route. Thanks for watching!
Interesting enough there are cypress in Maryland. Go figure.
That is interesting. They can flourish in many different environments.
How old are the oldest cypress trees?
The oldest ones in our area are said to be around 1,000 years old. The oldest cypress in the world is said to be over 2,500 years old. Thanks for watching!
Where is that shot of you walking on the dried up mud shown in the thumbnail? Please tell me that was not clickbait.
Great question! Actually I thought this would have been asked by now. The answer is there is another section of video that was originally in this video, but as I edited it just didn’t make sense to leave in, so it ended up in another video
th-cam.com/video/lgsrn4vqpbY/w-d-xo.html
The thumbnail was made before the final edit for this video - Forgotten River. It was so appropriate for the video that it was left.
I had OHIO HISTORY, way back in 1971, under Mr. PASHKE, at Buchanan Junior High,
Is this anywhere near snake road?
It's about 40 driving miles southwest of the Cache.
Snake road is in union County near Ware Illinois
My mat. GP from Mounds.
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Raccoons would love those trees to nap in!
Yes, Indeed!
Dam it off and make the river go the old way, the proper way.
Little Grand Canyon
That's a great place! Need to get back there.
I was there when it was wet. I had to wrestle with a 12 ft alligator. Ate it for dinner.
So that's what happened to it.
Lol…
Ask yourself the question has anybody digged here approximately 30-40 feet deep?
Mr. PASHKE might still be teaching in TEXAS, unless that One is another Individual.
You better poke around before climbing in those holes, poisonous snakes!
Absolutely! Always on the look out for snakes, it just doesn't show up in the edit ... lol
That’s not the Ohio it’s the ancient teays river valley
This isn't the same Cache River that runs through Arkansas, is it?
Edit: No, no it's not. lol
Outsourced to Mexico 🇲🇽
Bait and switch picture.
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They think I'll cave in and buy prime. Which I think most do. Not me. I'll pay for Netflix again before getting brainwashed and funneled into giving money.
I haven't forgotten the years that TH-cam didn't have ANY adds interrupting videos! When the uploader began to include ads, I cut them off.
Little by little month by month, they are getting worse.
All is to say: I share your sentiment 100%!
Don't put your face over that hole! Didn't you see Alien?
LOL
He's like confused about the burn marks on the older cypress trees and whatnot. But he knows nothing about meltology and our real history.not his-story but the real story
Well what is the real story?
Meh, till it up plant crops.
Disliked for clickbait thumbnail. Why would you do that