Three Sisters Swamp: The Oldest Bald Cypress Forest on the Planet

Directed by Shawn Bannon · Starring Kemp Burdette · 2020

Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette guides a tour of North Carolina's Three Sisters Swamp, home to bald cypresses more than 2,000 years old, and asks whether industrial agriculture threatens them.

Stunning footage of trees older than the Roman Empire, plus a timely look at what could endanger them.

In 2019, scientists discovered that several trees in Eastern North Carolina’s Three Sisters Swamp are over 2,000 years old; one is at least 2,624 years old. Located in a remote section of the Black River, the grove of tr

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