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  1. "They don’t confront us like mountains, comfort us like oceans, or envelop us like forests; they don’t seem to want to have anything to do with us at all. Swamps hide. Swamps demur." —Ashley Stimpson on why swamps deserve our love.

    longreads.com/2025/10/02/to-lo

    #GreatDismalSwamp #CongareeNationalPark #GreatBlackSwamp #OkefenokeeSwamp #BigCypressSwamp

  2. Limenitis arthemis, the red-spotted purple or white admiral butterfly, in Congaree National Park in South Carolina. A shout out to "circle to search" which makes identification so much easier.

    #travel #roadtrip #findyourpark #congareenationalpark #southcarolina #teampixel

  3. From park signage:
    • The tall trees...are taller than old-growth forests in Japan, the Himalayas, virtually all the temperate deciduous forests in Europe, and are similar to or taller than the old-growth forests in the southern regions of South America.
    #travel #congareenationalpark #southcarolina

  4. From signage in Congaree National Park:

    • No place in eastern North America has a larger contiguous area of 130-foot to over 160-foot tall trees.
    • This old-growth forest is among the tallest broad-leaved forests in the world.

    #travel #findyourpark #congareenationalpark #southcarolina

  5. Congaree National Park in South Carolina is small, but so full of diverse flora and fauna. This Barred owl was only one of the many species I saw while there.

    #travel #roadtrip #findyourpark #congareenationalpark #southcarolina #teampixel