ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム動画 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Video by @macstonephoto | Ancient cypress swamps dominated the Atlantic coastal plain until the 19th and 20th centuries brought industrial logging and wetland draining projects to the South. Today, only a handful of old-growth cypress forests remain and they are enchanting windows into how the southeastern United States once looked. I have explored these wetland areas since I was a child, and it’s in cypress swamps that I first learned how to use a camera. I came to know them as integral to our local ecology and as ambassadors for our unique blackwater brand of southern wilderness. It’s a different kind of wild, but one that desperately needs advocates. Today, however, our cypress forests are facing a new threat. Saltwater intrusion from rising sea levels, dredging, droughts, and severe storms is turning coastal woods into what scientists call ghost forests. More than 5,000 square miles of coastal forests have disappeared in the last 20 years, according to researchers at the University of Virginia and Duke University. Along much of the coast, the resilient cypress trees that have withstood millennia of storms and draining schemes now stand lifeless, bleached white by the sun, ghoulishly haunting the salt marsh. These fascinating tannic forests, which have always magically transported me back to the past, now seem to be beckoning us to look toward the horizon at the slow, tidal creep of the future. Learn more at the link in bio. To see more from swamps and wetlands, follow @macstonephoto.」10月25日 21時10分