Tree Hugging- The New River in Drought Stage: Stranded Cypress
Channel: ApalachicolaOSPREY
Date: 2011-06-25

New River in Drought Stage, 2011:  Ancient Bald Cypress stranded in extreme drought stage at this Liberty County, Apalachicola National Forest location.  Alan Knothe and Robin Vroegop estimated this tree's circumference at thirty feet, and it's diameter near its base as nine feet!  Robin  hasn't seen the river this low at this spot since 1998.