Bare cypress are usually a sign …
Of winter in the swamp.
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| Cypress lose their resistance to withstand fire when the water table drops too low |
Yet this photo was taken in spring.
The cypress should be lush green, not bare gray.
The cause?
Blame it on a major wildfire two springs ago.
The water table was simply too low and the fire too hot.
The result was the high cypress tree mortality shown above.
