Arkansas State Record Bald Cypress

During grad school in South Dakota, my Waterfowl Ecology & Management class went down to the Mississippi Delta to learn about what was being done for waterfowl at the other end of the flyway. We spent time in the Bootheel of Missouri and Northeast Arkansas. At White River National Wildlife Refuge, we were taken to see the alleged (for good reason) State Record cypress tree.

Here I am on the "uphill" (it is the Delta) side.

 

 

 

The entire class in front of the cypress.