Down along the state line in Frankford exists Delaware’s largest freshwater wetland and contiguous block of forest, and perhaps its last truly wild land: the Great Cypress Swamp. At one time, the ...

“This morass (of the Great Cypress Swamp) extends six miles from east to west and nearly 12 from north to south including an area of nearly 50,000 acres of land ... This swamp contains a great variety ...

FRANKFORD, Del. (AP) - As a young boy, a high school student and now a 33-year-old adult, Andrew Martin has been swamped. The Great Cypress Swamp, Delaware Wild Lands Inc.’s 10,600-acre property ...

Once a low-yield agricultural field, the 80-acre “Long Field” now consists of seven interconnected wetland cells that create a dynamic land- and waterscape. Completed just weeks ago, this project is ...

Southern Sussex County's Great Cypress Swamp used to encompass over 50,000 acres, but was nearly destroyed by centuries of fires, logging, ditching and draining. Today, nonprofit Delaware Wild Lands ...