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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 ...
Heron Pond - Little Black Slough Nature Preserve: 1972: Johnson: State, private Largest remnant of cypress-tupelo swamp in the state, containing alluvial, colluvial and lacustrine sedimentation and a heron rookery. Horseshoe Lake: 1972
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]
Planning your trip to Cache River State Natural Area. Cache River State Natural Area covers more than 14,000 acres in Johnson, Massac and Pulaski counties, according to the Illinois Department of ...
The protected areas include Heron Pond – Little Black Slough Nature Preserve, a designated National Natural Landmark and wetland of international importance. In 1982, with his son Mark W. Mohlenbrock, he co-founded the Southern Illinois Native Plant Society, an organization dedicated to "the preservation, conservation, and study of the native ...
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.
A walking tour of the Big Cypress National Preserve. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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