The swamps used to be full of cypress trees. Now there are lots of cypress stumps and dying trees. Why? Is it from too much logging or is it salt water incursion?

Salt water is the greater threat and would kill the forests over time even if there was no logging. In the presence of logging the salt water has only to prevent reforestation and it does.

The answer....freshwater and silt....from the river....it's the only answer to this mess. Regulating logging is one more attempt to arrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.

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One environmental group has recently been campaigning to boycott Cypress Mulch sold in the garden sections of many stores and landscapers. They think the loggers are clearcutting forests to grind to mulch. Bob Odom the Commissioner of Agriculture says no, the mulch is a byproduct of normal sawmill operations and is fine to use. He also says we are growing more board feet of cypress lumber per year than we are harvesting and losing through saltwater incursion.

I'd like to know who is right.....more to come when I find some facts