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Henry N. Barkhausen Cache River Wetlands Center is a nature center and natural history museum in the Cache River Wetlands, near Cypress, Illinois.It features exhibits, an interactive diorama of a wetland, interactive touch screens and a 12-minute video on the cultural and natural history of the watershed, including the Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge.
Seasonal or event-based services include the summertime "Zoo Bus" to the Columbus Zoo, [54] the "Bus it to the Buckeyes" service for Ohio State University football games at the Ohio Stadium, and the "Zoom to Boom" service to the city's July 4 fireworks show Red, White & Boom.
The Heron Pond – Little Black Slough Nature Preserve lies to the east of Cypress. Illinois Route 37 passes through the village. According to the 2010 census, Cypress has a total area of 0.753 square miles (1.95 km 2), of which 0.75 square miles (1.94 km 2) (or 99.6%) is land and 0.003 square miles (0.01 km 2) (or 0.4%) is water. [5]
The Cache River Wetlands is America's northernmost cypress/tupelo swamp and harbors 91 percent of the state's high quality swamp and wetland communities. It provides habitat for more than 100 threatened and endangered species in Illinois. In 1996, the Cache was designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. [4]
The Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge is an American wildlife refuge. It is located in the Cache River watershed in southernmost Illinois, largely in Pulaski County, but with extensions into Union, Alexander, and Johnson counties. [2] The refuge was established in 1990 under the authority of the Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986.
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A floating boardwalk that is part of the Todd Fink-Heron Pond Trail allows visitors to enter the bald cypress/water tupelo swamp. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The name of the small nearby town of Cypress, Illinois , appears to commemorate the cypress trees of the upper Cache River drainage, including the groves now protected within the Heron Pond – Little ...