Before oil and gas, Louisiana's first industrial boom belonged to the logging industry. With the help of backwoods swampers ...

A. Normally, logs from cypress trees will float in water when they are harvested. Sometimes, however, they have a bacterial infection in the living tree that increases the water content so that the ...

Buried in the silt of the lakes near LSU could be treasure enough to pay for revitalizing and beautifying one of Baton Rouge’s signature amenities — or not. Depends on how much “sinker cypress” — the ...

Reporting from Meggett, S.C. — Hewitt Emerson stuffed himself into a wetsuit, took a deep breath and plunged from a barge into the murky black waters of the Edisto River. Emerson swam down to the muck ...

THE ATCHAFALAYA SWAMP – The bridge is closed that leads over Bayou Mercier to Greg's cypress cabin, creating a circuitous detour and an even quieter-than-usual space on the edge of the swamp. I don't ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - A local man has created what he says is the world’s first violin made entirely from sunken cypress wood, and it’s an instrument that musicians say produces a sound unlike any ...

You see them in every home magazine, in every catalog and every furniture store — live edge coffee tables, side tables and dining tables. But what exactly is “live edge”? It’s basically a slab of wood ...