The viewers of the `` Deep Peep Show '' at 15th and M Streets NW have an added attraction -- the view of a fossilized cypress swamp.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Between 1800 and 1820, the legendary Colonel Plug also, known as Col. Plug or Colonel Fluger, ran a gang of river pirates on the Ohio River, in a cypress swamp, near the mouth of the Cache River, which was below Cave-In-Rock and Fort Massac and just above the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

It is an important example of southern cypress swamp but it has been greatly altered by logging, drainage and levee construction.

This combination of virgin pine and cypress forest, hardwood forest, meadow and blackwater swamp is managed by the National Park Service.

After the company's bankruptcy, most of the swamp was purchased by the Hebard family of Philadelphia, who conducted extensive cypress logging operations from 1909 to 1927.

The river contains large areas of bottomland hardwood swamp and cypress swamp, providing habitat for many species of wildlife including sturgeon and black bears.

It contains one of two known fallen Sequoia sempervirens in the UK, Wellingtonia, dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostroboides ), Atlas cedar ( Cedrus atlantica ), western hemlock ( Tsuga heterophylla ), Chinese swamp cypress and yew.

A cypress swamp in Big Cypress National Preserve, south Florida This is the most aquatic species of the genus Agkistrodon, and is usually associated with bodies of water, such as creeks, streams, marshes, swamps and the shores of ponds and lakes.

The trees include plane, Indian chestnut, silver maple, and a swamp cypress.

Bald cypress that might be found in a Louisiana swamp grow just a short walk from pines and birches that grow in New England forests ; young redwoods from California grow near cottonwoods that might grow in riverside forests in the otherwise treeless Great Plains States.

Goose Creek Trail is a 1. 9-mile ( 3. 06-km ) trail that passes through a cypress swamp.

The park also contains a large cypress swamp.

It is surrounded by a swamp of red maple and Atlantic white cypress, and by steep granitic monadnocks.

It is commonly found in open sclerophyll forests, including those on coastal dunes or granite outcrops ; forests dominated by spotted gum on mountain ridges and exposed slopes ; box and ironbark forests on the foothills of the Great Dividing Range ; mixed forests of eucalypts and cypress ( Callitris ); forests dominated by yapunya, mulga, gidgee, brigalow or emu bush ; in stands of belah and scattered clumps of boree ; on the edges of woodlands of river red gum including swamp woodlands bordering floodplains, and areas dominated by exotic species such as European ash and willow.

Swampland is a current temporary exhibit features replicated South American swamps of the Pantanal, a Florida mangrove swamp, and a Southeastern U. S. cypress swamp.

A natural sand bar, which extends along the northwest shore between a fringing cypress swamp and the main lake, was supplemented with spoil dredged to form a neighboring canal in 1946 and developed with private residences.

Big Creek delivers tea-colored water from the large cypress and gum tree swamp at the northeast corner of the lake, and the Waccamaw River emerges from the southern shore.

It is bordered by a swamp area that features bald cypress, sweetgum, oak, tupelo and other hardwoods.

Wetlands include small lakes and streams, bogs, pitch pine-blueberry peat swamps, an inland Atlantic white cypress swamp, red maple swamps, acidic seeps, calcareous seeps, and a few emergent marshes.

biflora ), water tupelo ( Nyssa aquatica ), sweetbay ( Magnolia virginiana ), bald cypress ( Taxodium distichum ), swamp laurel oak ( Quercus obtusa ), red maple ( Acer rubrum ), loblolly ( Pinus taeda ), ti ti ( Cyrilla racemiflora ), fetterbush ( Lyonia lucida ), and winterberry ( Ilex verticillata ).

A four hundred acre Bald Cypress swamp is the largest remaining remnant of a cypress strand that once separated the pine flatwoods in the east from the Everglades marshes.

The name Sabine ( Sp: Río de Sabinas ) comes from the Spanish word for cypress, in reference to the extensive growth of such trees ( here Bald cypresses ) along the lower river.

The presence of large bald cypress swamps along the Pocomoke River led to logging, the manufacture of roofing shingles, and shipbuilding along the river at Newtown ( later Pocomoke City ).

In The White Goddess, he names the white poplar as one of the " three trees of resurrection ," along with alder and cypress.

The northern portion of the county is typically gently rolling hills, river flatlands, and some sizeable bald cypress swamps along Cypress Creek and its tributaries.

The modern French words for paisley are boteh and palme, the latter being a reference to the palm tree, which, along with the pine and the cypress, is one of the traditional botanical motifs thought to have influenced the shape of the paisley element as it is now known.

This monument is made up of 192 olive and cypress trees, one for each person who died on that day, with a tree also planted in remembrance of the police officer who died on 3 April 2004, along with seven of the perpetrators whose capture was underway.

The Nootka Cypress is used extensively by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, along with another cypress, Thuja plicata ( Western Red Cedar ).

* Some cypress trees, Bald Cypress Taxodium distichum, along the Frio River and including individuals within Garner State Park TX, exceed 22 ft ( 6. 7m ) circumference and about 86ft ( about 26m ) height, and may be over 300 years old.

An agile climber, gray rat snakes are at home from the ground to the tree tops in many types of hardwood forest and cypress stands, along tree-lined streams and fields, and even barns and sheds in close proximity to people.

Lumber companies, such as the Eureka Lumber Company and later Weyerhauser Corporation, acquired extensive tracts of land along the creeks and harvested vasts stands of old growth bald cypress and Longleaf pine.

Upstream along the banks of Temple Terrace's Riverhills Park is a scene from old Florida, cypress trees dotting the watery landscape.

Sakaki is considered a sacred tree in the Shinto religion along with other evergreens such as hinoki 檜 " Japanese cypress " and kansugi 神杉 " sacred cryptomeria ".

Exhibits include a 300-year-old Indian canoe and marine fossils recovered from the lake, natural history specimens, Waccamaw Siouan Indian artifacts, early European settler artifacts, railroad including a caboose, information on local industries including turpentine, cypress shingles, logging, and tool manufacturing, along with many old photographs.

Bald cypress and other hardwood grow along the banks, often reflected in the bayou's quiet water.

Mega-plant fossils are rare in the park, but pollen grains and spores collected from here suggest that these Campanian forests contained sycamore, magnolia and bald cypress trees, along with Metasequoia.

The Korean old-growth forests and particularly large cypress logs were under Japanese logging operations and shipped to Japan, along with other exportable building materials.

Beginning on January 5, 2009, 30 environmental activists staged a five-day vigil along the Barley Barber Swamp, a old growth cypress forest owned by Florida Power & Light, to draw attention to what they claimed were damages being wrought by the power company's 3, 705 megawatt Martin County plant.

Bald cypress occurs mainly along riparian ( riverside ) wetlands normally subject to periodic flooding by silt-rich ' brownwater ' rivers, unlike the related Taxodium ascendens, which occurs in silt-poor blackwater rivers and ponds.

Joshua D. Brown, the first settler of Kerrville, Texas, made his living producing shingles from cypress trees growing along the Guadalupe River of the Texas Hill Country.

Roughly 90 % of the trip is along the Big Cypress Bayou, affording views of the slow-moving water and thousands of bald cypress trees.

The name Chicot, French for stumpy, is after the many cypress stumps and trees along its banks.

However early on this was mostly just water from the river-side of the Canal head ; most of the area along the Canal in back of Gentilly Ridge remained cypress swamp with a few cow-pastures subject to periodic flooding.