Wetland conservation efforts
WHAT’S NEXT?
Our vision is for people to be changed for the better when they experience a living example of land restored with a strategy, managed with discipline, and then handed down with joy.
from the field journal
Why this place really matters.
The Cache River is a rare thread of the remaining 20% of the bottomland hardwood wetlands complex historically known as the “Great Swamp.” The Great Swamp is estimated to have once encompassed twenty-five million acres of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley.
This vast ecosystem stretched from Missouri’s bootheel to Louisiana’s southernmost marshes. It is now lost in American memory through draining, timbering, and development from the post-Civil War era to the 1970s.
