Ancient Bald Cypress of Black River, North Carolina

This six-minute film describes the discovery of bald cypress trees over 2,000-years old in the forested wetlands of Black River, near Wilmington, North Carolina. Read more at: cypress.uark.edu

[@JenniferHudsonTaylor]

I love my home state of NC, and this makes me love it even more. This is fascinating and I want us to preserve this forest and learn as much as we can about it.

[@wendyquenneville1330]

If you've ever been camping you know how the woods can restore your soul, and bring peace and comfort to you. Woods of this magnificence must be preserved.

[@skylerlandale1437]

I would love to hug that tree!

[@GuadalupePicasso]

Have you ever read the writings of John Muir?

[@tilleylepew5944]

You lie in the palm of his hand !

[@harleymomx]

I have greatly enjoyed learning about the study of the age of trees and about cypress trees. I have planted several bald cypress trees myself on my land in Haskell, since finding out about the Arkansas Champion Cypress tree. It's really cool that you are also from AR and trying to preserve trees all over.

[@rhonda90402]

What a great video. I enjoyed watching it so much! Thank you for educating us about this area of ancient cypress trees. We all should donate what we can to The Nature Conservancy!

[@HDCarolina]

"We need to be able to get out into nature. It does us more good than you can imagine"....Agreed! This place looks magical.

[@vincentthomas495]

I've been growing this tree in my nursery for 26 years. This video makes me love this tree even more, (if that's possible). This river is definitely on my bucket list.

[@billyjoejones6639]

LOVE THE TREES AND THR RIVER BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU.

[@SlackingQuahog]

This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you for what you do and for sharing your joy of discovery. We need this more than ever.

[@Trevco]

North Carolina is beautiful! Wow, wonderful video

[@GuadalupePicasso]

Beautiful coastline in the east, rolling hills and some small mountains scattered in the middle, and the biggest mountains on the eastern seaboard in the west. It’s an amazing state!

[@strongarm181]

Awesome! Thank you for sharing and your hard work!

[@fugooglescum415]

people who are mad about tiny holes would really hate woodpeckers and catipillars :D this is a great video. Humans have enough space for us to live on, we should be preserving all the rest. It's important to be good stewards of our environment.

[@stevenhaff3332]

Beautiful setting, and it appears excellent work on research and conservancy gentlemen!

[@totaratree99]

Excellently produced and very information production thank you. Cheers from New Zealand.

[@collman505]

Amazing video! Learned so much!

[@lauramcguinn5420]

What music is this? Everything about this film is wonderful!

[@annemason2567]

It is credited to Luke Boswell in the credits. No title is given.

[@calametrocity]

"What have these trees seen?" Whatever wandered into the the swamp would be my guess.

[@TheAdair1234]

I have 4 beautiful old Bald Cypress in my yard. I measured one it’s over 1000 yrs old . I have one bigger than that one. My trees are bigger then all of them on Hontoon island in Deland Florida love them

[@veronicaalleyne]

the developer's enemy is an undisturbed patch of green

[@joysmith1213]

This posting is reposting over and over on my aunts Facebook account. Is there an issue with her or the post? Thank you!

[@shantvincent782]

How do the prevent termites/blight or some other disease from taking advantage of the cored hole?

[@trongraham1756]

Cypress trees are naturally resistant to termites and blight.

[@Mattan777]

These people dont really care about the trees

[@danielrk8]

Amazing and awesome.... surprised anything like that still exists! see any Ivory Billed Woodpeckers?? I know... wishful thinking...

[@rosaartemisg5027]

Must visit ! Wowww 🌱🙏❤️

[@oldeyeball]

Do you fill your boreholes so that insects do not invade the tree?

[@veronicaalleyne]

not all insects are detrimental to tree health

[@oldeyeball]

@@veronicaalleyne Where that is true, it does not answer my question: Do you fill your boreholes?

[@veronicaalleyne]

@@oldeyeball I don't happen to go around putting holes in things as a rule or by accident & are you an entymologist to know that all insects are indeed harmful?

[@oldeyeball]

@@veronicaalleyne Veronica, please don't take my question personal or as an attack. My question is simple; When a core sample is taken, is the hole it leaves in the tree plugged? There are several reasons I am asking this and none are "traps" to start a fight or diminish the work that is being done.

[@veronicaalleyne]

@@oldeyeball if you think I think that you attacked me in any way, it's probably because that's exactly how you really meant it

[@billybrooks1]

Do you plug the holes?

[@81camino63]

"Its really a valuable tree" - Proceeds to drill a hole into the side of a tree thats been untouched by humans for thousands of years

[@Mattan777]

These people dont really care about the trees.

[@judsonclayto7813]

I was thinking that the trees would have a larger diameter. I've seen larger bald cypress in Georgia. I remember one that you could stand inside years ago as it was rotted out, probably only 50 foot tall as the canopy had long since been blown out.

[@Lacombe57]

Thanks for your stewardship.

[@trongraham1756]

I know where some bald cypress are on the east coast that are much larger than these trees. Wonder how old they are.

[@missjoseeb6893]

I cannot imagine that making a hole from bark to pith will not hurt the tree...Is it necessary to keep doing it?

[@victort.4798]

It really doesn’t hurt the tree. The xylem and phloem that actually draw up water and nutrients from the soil and transport sugars throughout the tree are only a thin layer of the tree and rely on vertical motion. Scraping off a ring around the tree if it’s deep enough is what will hurt the tree because you’ve cut off this transport. A small hole like the one created when coring a tree is negligible in the scale of the entire tree. Also for the record, peeling off the outer bark will not hurt the tree unless you peel off enough that the inner bark (phloem) is exposed or damaged

[@cindydalton9493]

sweet!

[@ozone385]

what is that bulb at 4:23 in the video? Thank you.

[@albobal2]

Is there a way you can study these magnificent trees without boring holes in them??? Boring holes for samples has got to compromise the lifespan of the trees in the long-term. You will not live long enough to know if you've harmed them. SMH

[@victort.4798]

Taking a small core of a tree does not hurt it, the impact to the working parts of the trunk are negligible in the large scale of the whole tree and will be quickly healed by the tree. Coring trees is common practice in science and is the best way to obtain needed information without affecting the tree

[@JN571]

The person reading this, I wish you a happy, successful, and healthy life forever.

[@marciojosemarch]

Thank you so much! Now i understand why the climate is change! ;)

[@virginiabailey4400]

I wonder if the Everglades has a history as long as this? I know our Cypress trees are old, but I don't think it has been land that long. Three thousand years is a long time and wet all that time!!!!

[@bunterhiden7321]

the senator bald Cyprus in Longwood FL was 3,500 years old but some crackhead burnt it down

[@squarecracker]

Everything in Florida got logged in the 20th century. The big cypress got logged in the 40=50's to rebuild Europe. The largest virgin tract left is Corkscrew swamp which has about 700 acres of virgin forest. Even remote places in Fl got logged a long time ago.

[@alexmanning9961]

Wow. Dave, your last name is spelled Stahle?

[@sfmike711]

Alex Manning : Wow. Alex, your last name is spelled Manning? Why in the world would the spelling of a person's last name amaze you?

[@alexmanning9961]

@@sfmike711 because I know Dave and didn't know his name was spelled that way.

[@sfmike711]

@@alexmanning9961 : Amazing! I know how to spell the names of those folks I know. Amazing!

[@alexmanning9961]

@@sfmike711 I'm very happy for you

[@sfmike711]

@@alexmanning9961 : And I'm happy that you're happy.

[@ginafournier7157]

I was a monkey. We all become birds. I guess only the rarest become trees. Namaste. Peace! Peace! Peace!

[@robchurchill1368]

it just shows that climate change is real and recent if a 2600-year-old tree is in danger.

[@ROCKTOBERI]

Leave all those trees alone,please!They managed till now,but if you start to drill them,exposed them they will just die.....If you are a scientist come up with some other method ,than hurting living creatures,than you can yourself a scientist.

[@victort.4798]

Coring the tree does not hurt it, especially if the tree is very large and it is not done repeatedly. In the large scale of the tree a small hole is negligible and will heal quickly. The trunk provides the purposes of support and transport of water, nutrients, and energy, neither of which will be compromised by a tiny hole. Again remember these trees are feet in diameter and tens or hundreds of feet tall. A hole less than an inch in diameter will not affect it. Scientists train to be able to do this in the least disruptive way possible, trust them

[@13thbunkerstudios]

just imagine how it was before the Caucasian invasion 😳, smdh , stole the land now trying to save the environment, prior to creating nuclear weapons.

[@adambennett2176]

How can people not believe there is a highernpower greater then our selfs. Jesus christ!! His is name. When that tree dies he will come again

[@JustSomeInternetDude]

He was a myth, and there is no God. Grow up, and stop believing in myths.

[@adambennett2176]

@@JustSomeInternetDude i can kinda understand what u are saying but can u be more specific? Like god or jesus is a myth?? Like my hommies odin, and thor. Im interested in your look on life and our meaning and purpose. If u or i do not believs and anything other then the present the why go on?? Why try and makd a life for our selfs and maybe those around us. Why??

[@JustSomeInternetDude]

@@adambennett2176 yes just like the Gods of ye olden days, like odin. They were real for the people of that time. Much like gods of today of the various religions, all myths and legends. as far as why we go on, well we are self aware have feelings need to eat and are social. So we hook up and procreate, work for our food and socialise with our friends. It's called living our life. Surely you don't need a myth to tell you all this, it's pretty self explanatory.

[@adambennett2176]

I agree with what you saying about the old gods, i beleive they were stories in which to tell the children to strive to have the same characteristics and attributes, morrals, honor, characteristics that make up a Morley good man or women. But then how do we explain our existence and please dont say the big bang. For as u well know our galaxy is vast... in todays soiecty where boy has a choice to be a girl and so on, religion was our way to walk a Moral ground. It basticslly helped western civilization become what it is today.

[@adambennett2176]

Without religon there is no moral ground in witch to live our life. No rules no loyalty, no love, god is what brings all that what is together with us. Wether be jesus, odin, or Zeus

[@11UncleBooker22]

Cypress wood is a good wood for furniture...……..I mean.....you know unless you want it to live thousands of years without a purpose. Just say'in.

[@d.kleiser9514]

I hope they disinfected and sealed the core-holes...

[@Mattan777]

They dont and really it would not help much, all tree that they take sample on will be dead in 50 years. These people dont really care about the trees, they care about themself only.