Floodplain Forests and the Nature Conservancy

Romantic and legendary, the southern rivers of the United States form a unique part of our cultural and natural history. Between isolated hunting camps and an occasional fisherman, the rivers of the old South twisted through millions of acres of dense forests, past sunning alligators and beneath nesting eagles. Deeper in the forests, panthers prowled a hidden world rich in wildlife and splendid in variety. But today, the great forests, like the eagles and the panthers they nurtured, are mostly gone.