Don Puckett, Friends of Cat Island vice-president and former general counsel at the Louisiana Department ... the national champion bald cypress, one of the largest tree of any species east ...

In a world full of stress and drama, wouldn't it be nice to drift lazily along on a lake, surrounded by magical cypress trees growing ... to Chicot State Park in Ville Platte, Louisiana.

The Pelican State is also renowned for ... It's a quintessential Louisiana landscape, home to water tupelo trees and bald cypress covered in sweeping Spanish moss, alligators lurking in the ...