tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20000887743080554682024-02-19T04:02:35.633-06:00KintsAdventures in Faith-based Ornithology: A Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in South MississippiChristopher Carlislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978799094610376978noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000088774308055468.post-28851975047437966692021-01-11T18:22:00.001-06:002021-01-11T18:22:33.420-06:00Epilogue<p>I feel readers of this blog are owed an update, after the incredible journey my brother Brian and I have shared here over the last several years. This will likely be the last entry, unless news comes to me of pertinent developments regarding the Ivorybill in the Pascagoula River Basin.</p><p>While I have not made any updates to this site in well over a year, Brian and I have both together and separately made several forays into the area, usually in areas we have already explored. We did manage a day in the field in the past year in an area new to us, in the extreme south end of the Pascagoula River WMA, not far from its border with Ward Bayou WMA. Images from that trip, and others, can be found in my brother's photography page on Facebook, called The Humble Hiker.</p><p>Many readers may not be aware of the significant impact of Hurricane Zeta on the Pascagoula River Swamp, which occurred in late October of last year. Many of the roads and trails were rendered impassable by downed timber, and some were only barely cleared in time for the beginning of the state's annual deer hunting season a month later. Again, Brian's photography page on Facebook provides some images of the destruction, including an update on our favorite baldcypress, the Ancient of Days, and how he fared through the tempest.</p><p>I suppose the end of this blog begs the question: do I think there are Ivorybills still in the Pascagoula River Swamp? I honestly do not know. I have seen some things that I could not explain, which at best suggested the presence of the species; but never did we find definitive evidence. But we were searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack, and moreover a needle that could easily move. I remain open to the possibility that Ivorybills still live there, and am convinced that the area is one of the last best places for its continued survival.</p><p>My hope with the blog was always to provide a record for others who might attempt a search of the area. The Pascagoula River Swamp is a vast, changing landscape, and information can rapidly become outdated, or lost. Perhaps others will trek the Swamp, and find useful the information contained in these digital leaves.</p><p>We did not find the Ivorybill. What we did find, however, was a magical landscape that challenged and changed us in ways we could not have foreseen. I like to think I am a better soul for the experience; it is certain that I am a more humble one. I count myself fortunate to have experienced for myself this place, and letting its timelessness swallow me whole. </p><p>Thanks to Mark Michaels, who I count as a friend, and who provided invaluable guidance, especially as I was attempting to understand Ivorybill foraging behavior; Becky Lumpkin Stowe, of the Nature Conservancy, who gave us valuable advice and direction regarding locations to explore; and Dean Hurliman of Iowa, artist, hopeless romantic, and kindred spirit. Thanks also to 'Cyberthrush' for linking to us on his blog, and for other help over the years. <br /></p><p>Thanks to all who have come here and shared in our adventure. For much of my life, I wanted to search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. </p><p>So, I did.</p><p>-- Chris</p><p>P.S. I think a new adventure may be beginning for me and mine. If it happens, I will let you know.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Christopher Carlislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978799094610376978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000088774308055468.post-37012279010887933442019-10-21T18:56:00.000-05:002019-10-22T16:33:27.389-05:00A Day of Firsts: Sanctuary Lake II: October 5, 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Brian and I trekked the pathless bottomland and swamp from Davis Eddy to Sanctuary Lake on a muggy Saturday morning. I wanted to explore Sanctuary from the north, and hoped we might find a relict baldcypress there. We didn't, but the habitat was beautiful, and we moved through the relatively open forest with ease. The area around Davis Eddy, in the northern part of the Pascagoula River Swamp, is rapidly becoming another favorite of mine. Birds weren't notably active, but we did spy a bald eagle, flying low over the River, the first one we have seen in this area in our five years of exploring here.<br />
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<i>In this rich bottomland forest, we found our first hornbeam (not pictured). We have likely seen them before, but not recognized them; Brian used an app on his phone to help in its identification. I am continually impressed by the biodiversity of the Pascagoula River Swamp.</i></div>
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<i>Sanctuary Lake. As of this writing, the rains have already begun, and come Spring (if not sooner), the lake will be full again.</i></div>
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If I study the Pascagoula River Swamp on Google Earth long enough, I'll see things that I've somehow missed for years. Such was the case with the large lake just above Big Lake, in the northern sector of the WMA (Wildlife Management Area), just above Mississippi Highway 26. Brian and I have kayaked Big Lake before, in November 2015, during a time of high water (trip report <a href="https://ibwos.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-unfathomed-big-swamp-and-big-lake.html" target="_blank">here</a>); we had followed the swollen creek north from the lake, until we were within sight of Davis Eddy. But the larger, heavily wooded, and more remote lake to the north-east of Big Lake has drawn my attention on Google Earth of late, so I decided to check it out. My plan was to put in at the single boat ramp near the southern tip of Big Lake, kayak to the north end, and drag my kayak across the narrow spit of land to the bigger lake... hoping all the while that it would prove more navigable than nearby Bird Lake had.<br />
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For once, my plan worked, more or less. Low water limited my kayaking in Sanctuary Lake, my name for the otherwise nameless body of water that was my target. I exited the kayak after only a few minutes and wade through nearly knee-high mud to the ridgeline hugging the lake's southern shore. I made my way along it, through thick woods and brush, until I was able to wade into the muck again, and walk among the cypresses and tupelos of a normally flooded, very impressive, and very beautiful swamp forest.</div>
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<i>I put in to Sanctuary Lake here, the only open spot I could find. Here I would, on my way back out, watch an anhinga leap into the water from the stump in the center of the photo. I never saw him come up again.</i><br />
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<i>There were literally dozens of wood ducks in this lake, their cries of alarm at my presence almost drowning out the roosters crowing in the distance.</i></div>
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<i>Pre-flight. Lift-off momentarily. The diversity and large number of birds here, and the richness and remoteness of the place, led me to call it Sanctuary Lake.</i></div>
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<i>Here I left the certainty of dry land and ventured into the mud, drawn by the beauty of the trees.</i></div>
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<i>The places I walk in the Swamp sometimes give me the feeling that I'm the first human to set foot there in a very long time. Probably vanity, but it is a nice feeling.</i></div>
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<i>Likely my farthest extent. It is very tiring work, even in such motivating habitat.</i><br />
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<i>Cardinal flowers could be seen here and there on dry ground beyond the water's edge of both lakes. My photos do not do them justice; their vibrant red looks washed out in my images. But they are easily among my favorite flowers.</i></div>
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<i>On the ridge overlooking the Sanctuary. Possibly left by a duck hunter.</i></div>
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While I heard no kents or double-knocks, and saw no unusual scaling or nest holes, the quality of the habitat at Sanctuary Lake warrants further exploration, so I am considering coming at it from another direction. If nothing else, I suspect a titan cypress may be hiding out there. More later.</div>
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My brother Brian and I took our kayaks to the Pascagoula River once more on September 10, my birthday. The clear, sunny day warmed quickly from the upper 60's (Fahrenheit) at dawn to the 90's by 10 a.m. We put in at Josephine Sandbar, an easily accessible, massive sheaf of whitish sand on the River's east side. From there we kayaked downstream about 3/4 of a mile to Sandy Wash Bend, where we beached our boats on yet another huge sandbar, and hiked to Green Dead River, an interesting-looking area off the River's west bank we had not visited before. </div>
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I had thought we might be able to kayak through the swampy area just off the River, and access the lake that way; but the image on Google Earth was taken during a time of relatively high water. Now, during this time of near-drought conditions in south Mississippi, it is a nearly impassable expanse of thick brownish-grey mud. We persevered through a grove of eastern cottonwoods and thick underbrush to the lake's northeastern edge, but found the forest there to be very young. Cutting north, we walked through tall grass on a pine bluff before descending back to the sandbar and our kayaks, for the return paddle upstream.</div>
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<i>Beautiful wreck and ruin on the riverbank opposite Josephine Sandbar. (My photo.)</i></div>
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<i>Our best view of Green Dead River.</i><br />
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<i>Thick, waist-high grass on the pine ridge.</i></div>
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<i>We found several nice pieces of driftwood on Sandy Wash Bend. Some, like this one, were impossible to move, buried under tons of sand. (My photo.)</i></div>
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Green Dead River was disappointing, but the day was joyous. We were very tired at the end of the return trip upstream. The River, however forgiving, will have her due.</div>
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Christopher Carlislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978799094610376978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000088774308055468.post-40997828484890544772019-09-20T14:37:00.000-05:002019-09-21T11:44:08.109-05:00Bird Lake: 2 September 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I slipped away from the modern world for a few minutes on Labor Day
to visit a large, shallow lake just to the north of Mississippi Highway
26. A sign by the lone boat ramp marks the lake as "HWY 26 North
Birding Area." I asked a Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries
and Parks (MDWFP) official, who had later stopped me for a permit check,
what the name of the lake is. "Bird Lake," he said. "We only call it
'Bird Lake.'" Fair enough, I guess. I already knew that the lake is
definitely a local hotspot for waterfowl in the colder months, having
often passed it by on trips to Dace Lake and Davis Eddy.<br />
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It looks inviting enough on Google Earth. The land seems to sink into the rough shape of an oxbow along its southern line:<br />
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<i>Bird Lake on Google Earth. Big Lake is the slender body of water at the top of the image.</i></div>
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I quickly found navigating by kayak nearly impossible, as the waters
open to sunlight near the boat ramp are immediately choked by a vigorous
growth of lily pads and submerged timber. I'd hoped to make for the
northern and eastern reaches, but the morass steered me east and south
instead, to a very nice, shady growth of baldcypress and swamp tupelo
nearer the forest road. (An air boat might be of more use here.) I
disturbed the breakfasts of numerous wood ducks, which skittered off
into the secure north, broadcasting their alarm for the other denizens
of the Swamp. I heard more woodpeckers than I saw, although I caught a
glimpse of a very large Pileated Woodpecker on a cypress snag along
whatever passes for a shoreline to the north, before I passed into the
shade of the trees.<br />
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<i>Honeybees were everywhere abuzz among the lilypads.</i></div>
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My long-suffering 10' kayak, the <i>Kuhn, </i>had to undergo extensive repairs to the stern hull over the summer. Years of being dragged over gravel boat ramps, and sliding over innumberable who-knows-whats in the dark waters of the Pascagoula River Swamp, had left the craft with a sizable hole that invariably meant several gallons of water had to be drained after each outing.<br />
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Partly to test my patch, partly to pursue another hobby that has developed in the past year, and partly to just be out in the Wild again, I took the <i>Kuhn </i>down to Davis Eddy, a small lake just off the east bank of the Pascagoula, above Mississippi Highway 26, which marks the northern line of the Stronghold. My brother Brian and I had been to Davis Eddy a few years ago, in one of our first forays into the Pascagoula River Basin. The forest around the Eddy is rather young, growing in might the farther one goes to the south, nearer the Stronghold; but there are some stately cypress domes there, and the Eddy is small enough to make for a nice, manageable morning paddle, though my earlier visit was marked by the appearance of a small alligator, which always gives me pause. (Brian, much to his surprise and mine, encountered a very large one on the trail near Hutson Lake during a solo hike earlier this month.)<br />
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Partly out of habit, I first drove down the swamp road towards Hutson Lake. Driving back up it a few minutes later, I noticed some commotion on the road ahead, which at first I took to be several white-tailed deer frolicking or fighting. Drawing nearer, I discovered a doe defending her fawn from a large coyote. The deer bounded off to my right, and the coyote vanished into tall grass to my left. I suspect the doe and her fawn lived to fight another day.<br />
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The roads were empty of other activity, human or otherwise. Numerous small hawks flushed from the surrounding bottomland forest. I arrived at Davis Eddy to find the lake to myself, and would encounter no other humans during my time in the swamp, one of the benefits of being out there in August.<br />
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There were many birds out, and though my camera battery immediately registered in the red, I managed to take a few photos. I was very frustrated that I could not manage a decent photo of a beautiful male Prothonotary Warbler, who followed me among the cypress boughs as I began to make my way along the western edge of the Eddy. Small fish were leaping out of the water, one slapping against my upraised oar, startling me. Somewhat later, slipping along the shoreline, I marked a large ripple at the water's edge, and looked down just in time to see a long, narrow shape pass beneath my kayak: the unmistakable outline of an alligator. I felt that it must be the same alligator Brian and I had spied on our visit, now grown somewhat to around a respectable six feet. I decided to call him the Davis Eddy Monster, and his appearance kept me on edge for a while afterward, until I saw his head again some 30-40 yards off, monitoring my activity.<br />
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I am glad to say that the patch on my kayak held, at least for the time being. <br />
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<i>Now I have as a goal a good photo of one of these beautiful guys.</i></div>
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<i>Rose mallow.</i></div>
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<i>This anhinga was being harassed by a little blue heron.</i></div>
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<i>The Davis Eddy Monster. (Or: "Monster.")</i></div>
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Brian and I returned to Horseshoe Lake on 18 June. Some weeks before, I'd noticed on Google Earth a small, heavily wooded lake to the north of Horseshoe; its shape suggested to me a somewhat stylized dragon. With no name appearing on Google Earth, I decided after consulting with Brian to call it Fafnir's Lake. It was a short trip, heavy from the beginning with the promise of rain, and the heat and biting flies were nearly unbearable. We only just made it to the "underbelly" of the dragon; and as the forest there seemed very young, we cut our trip short, having just enough time to scavenge some driftwood from the other end of Horseshoe Lake before a heavy downpour that would not abate for several hours.<br />
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<i>Sigurd, a very large baldcypress we encountered on the trail in the vicinity of the Dragon. </i></div>
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<i>Horseshoe has some of the best forest views along its shores of any of the lakes in the Pascagoula River Swamp. Just my opinion.</i></div>
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<i>Thick muck on the southwestern end of Horseshoe Lake.</i></div>
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<i>We found some nice pieces of baldcypress driftwood.</i></div>
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<i>Sandbar directly across the River.</i></div>
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<i> Looking downstream as the rain began.</i></div>
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<i>I took this photo of a sweet gum as we were pulling away from Horseshoe Lake. I could not get a good shot because of the downpour. I suspect it is damage from a tree that fell, though I did not see the remains of one.</i><br />
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Brian and I would like to thank all who continue to visit this blog, and all past support and kindnesses that help inform this blog's perspective. Our relationship with the remarkable Pascagoula River Swamp -- now in its fifth year -- is changing in some ways, though we continue to explore it with cameras in our hands, mindful of the messages reaching our eyes and ears. My goal is to continue to share our journey here with all the clarity, humility, and reverence I can.</div>
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Christopher Carlislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978799094610376978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000088774308055468.post-78276324575231881662019-07-05T08:42:00.001-05:002019-07-05T08:44:48.389-05:00In Memory: Bob (Robert) Russell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thanks for all the kind words, optimism, and encouragement, Bob. You are missed.<br />
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<i>Boneyard Lake at dawn. Pascagoula WMA, Mississippi.</i> <i>(Photo: Brian Carlisle)</i></div>
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Christopher Carlislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978799094610376978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000088774308055468.post-65720608976631247682019-06-24T09:01:00.003-05:002019-06-24T09:01:42.601-05:00Hutson Lake, 5 March 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A morning kayak of Hutson Lake, my favorite grand old oxbow off the upper reaches of the Pascagoula River. Birds were very active, especially flycatchers and Prothonotary warblers; I watched a female of the latter species building a nest in a dead snag just inches from the waterline. <br />
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<i>This dead tupelo has been heavily worked on. I do not often see Pileated Woodpeckers out over the water, but this does suggest Pileated work to me.</i></div>
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<i>This dead relict still stands, a few years after my brother and I first encountered it. </i></div>
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Thanks to all who continue to visit this blog, and for the words of encouragement. My visits to the Swamp have decreased, but I now have more reasons for going, which I will not yet divulge here. I can only say that I will from time to time step into that world, and share my time there, as long as I live nearby.</div>
Christopher Carlislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978799094610376978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000088774308055468.post-85205029076907915952019-05-04T09:48:00.001-05:002019-05-04T09:48:12.463-05:00Boy, and Other Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My stepson -- who I will refer to here as "Boy" -- is 15 and is having the kind of troubles in school many of us are familiar with: bullies, girls, fitting in. He also gets the most enjoyment out of electronic games, which were only a brief diversion for me "back in the day" and at whose modern manifestations I am hopelessly inept.<br />
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Back in April I took Boy down to the Stronghold, for the long hike on Hollow Man Road. He surprised me with his stamina, and was awed by the great silence of the Swamp, broken only by the voices of birds and of the wind in the trees. We paused about a half mile in, so that I could let him watch some of the Cornell video, and to have a listen to the old audio of the Ivorybill. Nothing like hearing those recorded kent-calls in true Ivorybill habitat. He seemed a bit awed.<br />
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<i>End of the trail: Elephant Man Swamp.</i></div>
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Now I'd like to share with you some words from our friend Dean Hurliman of Iowa. Dean had requested this be shared in a comment on the last post, but they are deserving of a more visible location within the main body.</div>
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<i>There will be no Blue Fairy with a transforming wand
for the Hurliman IBWs, no Jiminy Cricket to befriend them. And
yet...if Brian and Chris were to show me their photos and say: </i></div>
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<i>"Come see the Ivory-Bills we've found</i></div>
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<i>Where the ancient Cypress grow."</i></div>
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<i>I should go with them through the swamp</i></div>
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<i>Hoping it might be so.</i></div>
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<i>Dean S. Hurliman</i></div>
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<i>P.S. Thanks to Thomas Hardy's poem "The Oxen".</i></div>
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I hope to take the 'yak out tomorrow for a visit to mighty Hutson Lake, the grand old oxbow commanding the north end of the Stronghold.<i> </i>Meanwhile, the rains are here today, polishing the new green leaves among which big birds may easily hide from prying eyes.<br /><i></i></div>
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Fulfilling a promise to our friend Dean Hurliman, my brother Brian and I took our Hurliman Ivorybills out for some sunlight and fresh Spring air. In case you missed it, these simply astonishing works of art were gifted to us by artist Dean Hurliman of Iowa. The big male is mine; Brian was gifted the other two, slightly smaller male and female. We are still deeply, deeply humbled by the generosity of this kindred spirit.<br />
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It was a perfect Spring day in Elephant Man Swamp, in the far southern end of the Stronghold. Red, white, glossy black, and antique white shone above the dark waters. For a few magical moments, we allowed ourselves to believe. And it was marvellous.<br />
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Earlier, we hiked through swarms of mosquitoes to visit the Ancient of Days, waking up from his long sleep, drinking deep of waters from the overflow of the Pascagoula.<br />
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The white flowers belong to a <i><b>Styrax americanus, </b></i>or American snowbell, a species we have not (knowingly) encountered before. This one grows along the overgrown trail, within a hundred yards or so of the Ancient of Days. <br />
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Thank you for visiting our blog. We will continue to post accounts of our search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the Pascagoula River Basin.</div>
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I took an increasingly rare opportunity to get afield on President's Day. I spent most of the morning meandering along the ridgeline where a beech/holly/pine slope forest meets baldcypress/tupelo swamp. Birds were quiet, though I heard and observed downy and red-bellied woodpeckers, and heard heavy tapping that was probably a pileated woodpecker. It was cool (50's F), and windy in the trees atop Holly Ridge, as I call it, but the swamp was still. <br />
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<i>Looking down into the swamp from Holly Ridge.</i></div>
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<i>Beaver work on a pine along Holly Ridge. I found more beaver sign like this along the ridge.</i></div>
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<i>Pine snag, one of many in the Leaf. The area is still littered with pines killed in the passing of Hurricane Katrina.</i></div>
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<i>Extensive scaling on a dead tupelo. Likely pileated woodpecker work. The species is very active in the Leaf Wilderness.</i> </div>
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Heavy rains later in the week will likely render much of the habitat in the Pascagoula River Basin inaccessible.<br />
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Brian and I drove down to the Pascagoula River Swamp to explore Boneyard Lake and its environs, a little-known-to-us corner of the WMA. We'd heard of the lake before, as it has been a favored subject of local photographers, and is known as the site of a heron rookery. We arrived a little after dawn, and quickly put our kayaks into the dark, still water, making a rough counter-clockwise arc through the baldcypress and tupelo along the lake's eastern half.<br />
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<i>Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Here I believe I was probably stuck on a submerged log. This happened to me several times and never failed to unnerve. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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We observed cormorants, wood ducks, red-bellied and pileated woodpeckers, crows, some kind of small hawk, several egrets, a lone tricolored heron, and a great blue heron. The trees thin out towards the west side of the lake, though evidently that's where the rookery lies.</div>
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We drove on down the WMA road, following the line of the River to our west, twice stopping to explore on foot. At the second trailhead we set off on a trail through some modest second-growth bottomland forest, which for a while took us through a long, narrow field. Eventually the trail reached the River, and we followed it on southward to a nice sandbar, where we rested before turning back. It was well before noon, and very warm and muggy, with little wind.</div>
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<i> Freshwater mussel track.</i></div>
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Though I was well pleased we were able to explore this place, I do not expect to return, unless it is to explore the bottomland well to the south of Boneyard. The forest is patchy in places and less mature overall than what we have found elsewhere in the Basin, particularly in the Stronghold and the area around John Goff Slough, and of course the fastness of Big Swamp. <i> </i></div>
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Brian and I returned to Big Swamp on September 11, after a 9-month hiatus. Time and money have been in short supply, and we are both family men who are mindful of our obligations. That, and the summer has been a real scorcher down here, raising the possibility of heat exhaustion, or worse.<br />
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At Brian's suggestion, we walked the same path we did in January of this year, which would take us south through Big Swamp, more or less shadowing Black Creek on its way to the Pascagoula River. I kept an eye out for Melkor's Pond as we hiked, but as with our last trip the Pond and its wizened guardian eluded us. Strange, how one misses things out there. The swamp's got its own ways, its own purposes.<br />
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Of Ivorybills we neither saw nor heard anything, nor any rumour thereof. But the habitat, as ever, is magnificent, begging the thought in my mind: they should be here, whether they are or not. They should be.<br />
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High water twice barred our path, but that was a good thing, as it got pretty hot later in the morning. I was very thankful to return to the kayaks, some time after midday. <br />
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<i>Typical view of the canopy in Big Swamp.</i></div>
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<i>Ring of fire: old lightning scar on a pine.</i></div>
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<i>Extensive bark stripping on a cypress. I could not manage a better picture. The phenomenon is still a bit of a mystery to me, though Brian has observed gray squirrels stripping cypress bark elsewhere in the Basin.</i></div>
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<i>Ye Hogge-wallow. We encountered a family of them on at least two different occasions, and Brian caught a glimpse of tusks. Always exciting!</i></div>
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<i>Misty mornings in the Pascagoula River Swamp make this one of my favorite places on Earth.</i></div>
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<i>American beautyberry. Apparently some people eat them. Not I.</i></div>
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<i>These sloughs are usually deeper than they seem. I believe this is one tentacle of German Slough, which makes most ventures into Big Swamp a pain in the ass.</i></div>
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<i>Great Blue Heron and raccoon tracks.</i></div>
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On another note, I am pleased to announce that my brother Brian is the recipient of a pair of magnificent Ivorybill carvings, courtesy of our friend Dean in Iowa. The generosity of this man cannot be overstated, as he creates and sends these amazing works of art free of charge. The two Brian received are among Dean's last Ivorybills, making them even more special. Brian and I will be taking our Hurliman Ivorybills to the Pascagoula River Swamp in the coming months for photos, and I look forward to sharing them with you all here.<br />
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After a busy year and a brutally hot summer, my brother Brian Carlisle and I managed to get back in the field yesterday, getting our feet wet (literally and figuratively speaking) in preparation for the coming search season. Photos and some brief commentary are coming soon.<br />
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Brian and I chose one of the coldest days of the season to hike Big Swamp. Temperatures rose to only about 20 degrees (Fahrenheit) after midday. The swamp was dark and gloomy in the cold and both our cameras and eyes had difficulty focusing, to the point that we missed at least one important fork in the trail that resulted in our having to make a disconcerting backtrack. We also somehow missed the short path that leads to Melkor's Pond and the rather menacing baldcypress that guards it. I have never seen ice in the Pascagoula River Basin in our years of exploring it (since 2014). Water levels were significantly higher than on my last trip; we unfortunately got our feet wet more than once, and were obliged to make a risky crossing of German Slough towards the end of the hike.</div>
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The birds were mostly quiet. We neither saw nor heard anything suggestive of Ivorybills or their activity, though while along Melkor's Road we both heard the same strange, distant calling that had mystified me on my previous hike there. I suspect it was a squirrel, but the acoustics of that place may have been playing tricks on our ears.</div>
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White-tailed deer were very active. We had pleasant conversations with hunters on ATV's on two different occasions, and they seemed a bit amazed at the ground we had covered on foot (around 12 miles total, by Brian's measure).</div>
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We were making for Hog Pond, but it remained elusive as before, and we were obliged to turn back after hiking around eight hours.</div>
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<i>The gloom gave way to blue skies as we made our way north up Big Swamp Road.</i></div>
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<i>Ever troublesome German Slough, along our return hike. Brian and I successfully crossed it via the same downed tree we have used in the past, though on this day it was partially submerged in icy water. Photo: Brian Carlisle</i></div>
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I arrived at Thieves' Landing, on the west bank of Black Creek, shortly before dawn (6:30 a.m.). Mist lay heavy on the Pascagoula River Basin; the temperature hung just below 60 degrees Fahrenheit, warming to about 70 later in the day. Rain the night before left the forest dripping and muddy, though water levels remain low -- a good thing for swamp hiking. I was surprised to see the landing area empty of other vehicles; easing the kayak to the creek, I heard gunshots some miles distant, but they were the only ones I would hear all day.<br />
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I had no clear plan save to cross Black Creek into Big Swamp, and see where the trail took me, moving slowly and listening for kent-calls and double-knocks, and eyeing the thinning forest canopy for interesting cavities and signs of woodpecker scaling.<br />
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After stowing the kayak in a sandy thicket, I bore east along the trail for about a hundred yards before turning southeastward, as the path shadowed Black Creek. I'd been on this section of trail a couple of years earlier, but then had followed it only a couple of miles before it seemed to vanish in trackless bottomland and swamp forest. Evidently I had wandered off the trail proper back then, because now the trail bore me faithfully all the way to Big Swamp Road, which is the main trail running from Sandy Wash Bend in the north, south to the confluence of Black Creek with Cypress Creek, the overflow channel of the Pascagoula River.<br />
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As I hiked, the beauty and solitude soon put me in a Tolkien frame of mind. <br />
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<i>I found this downed spruce pine the last time I passed that way, some two years ago. The WMA people have graciously worked with chainsaws to clear it from the path. The bark on it is still tight in places.</i></div>
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<i>I found a second downed spruce pine a couple of hundred yards down the trail from the first. The bark missing along the bole was likely scraped off as it crashed past other trees on its way down.</i></div>
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<i>Woodpeckers have been busy along the limbs. The work may have been done before the tree fell. The bark is still fairly tight on much of the tree.</i></div>
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<i>Beautiful and impressive swamp chestnut oaks are common in this part of Big Swamp.</i></div>
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<i>My camera is simple and not equipped for the poor lighting conditions of the day. Here I attempted to photograph what was probably a dead sweet gum that I believe was struck by lightning.</i></div>
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<i>I could not get a decent picture of him. Inspired both by his enormous base -- twisted and deformed perhaps by some ancient, long struggle -- and by his demeanor, I named him Melkor, after the renegade Vala responsible for much of the ills of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. </i></div>
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<i>The strange shape of some of the oaks along Melkor's Road lent their surrounding glades an unearthly air.</i></div>
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<i>The WMA people are improving trails in Big Swamp to provide better access to ATV's. Several hunters passed me along the trail on their ATV's during my hike.</i></div>
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<i>My last view of Black Creek from Melkor's Road.</i></div>
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<i>Mast from swamp chestnut oaks was plentiful on the forest floor.</i></div>
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<i>Woodpecker scaling on a dead tree I could not identify. The bark was neither tight nor loose.</i></div>
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<i>This lovely swamp slowly made itself visible as the trail bore me eastward.</i></div>
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<i>I saw a number of dead pines like these. Probably loblolly, very uncommon in Big Swamp. I rested here a few minutes, listening to what I first thought might be kents, but which I eventually realized was a squirrel barking, though it sounded very strange. The acoustics of the swamp can be tricky.</i></div>
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<i>A very large woodpecker flew from near the crown of the cypress in the center of this photo as I emerged onto the bank of this slough to get a better look, at around 9:30 a.m. Flying with steady wingbeats, after the manner of a crow, it circled around to the woods behind me; I had difficulty making out the underparts of its wings. It perched in another tall tree, and when I moved to get a better look, it flew off again, and did not return.</i></div>
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<i>A crown of faded gold for the old king.</i></div>
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<i>Some late autumn color.</i></div>
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<i>Evidently I was on Albritton Road. I like "Melkor's Road" better.</i></div>
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<i>This is the second Harrison Lake I have encountered in my life. The other is in a valley in the southwest of Glacier National Park, Montana. I am not sure which of the two is more beautiful.</i></div>
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<i>A mysterious grove of live oaks just beyond the shore opposite. I found a similar grove along the shore of Lingum Lake not far to the south, in 2016.</i></div>
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<i>Orome's Road bore me slowly westward, back to Big Swamp Road. I passed this sign along the way, reminding me of my long hike to Lingum Lake last June. Like the identical sign farther south, this one seemed to signify nothing in particular.</i></div>
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<i>Just beyond the WMA land, I passed private property along the access road that had been clearcut since my last visit. This wasteland will take many decades to recover.</i></div>
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<i> </i>Woodpecker activity was high for much of the day. The mystery bird, along with the abundance of woodpecker cavities and scaling (though none I would consider diagnostic for IBWO), satisfies me that the areas along both Melkor's Road and Harrison Lake hold promise. </div>
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The phrase "looking for a needle in a haystack" -- a moving needle, at that -- has always been apt in describing our efforts to find and document Ivorybills in the Pascagoula River Swamp, due in part to the large amount of rugged territory involved. On the other hand, the large area also means that, after well over three years of exploring, there are still places new to us, tucked in odd corners of the Basin that we have managed to overlook.<br />
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Poring over Google Earth last month (as I do almost daily), I noticed a small, tree-filled oxbow called Hog Pond, in the dead center of Big Swamp. I have at one time or another surveyed the land both to the north of it -- Goff Dead River, in October 2015, and (along with my brother Brian) Big Swamp's southeastern quadrant, in December of last year. Hog Pond is extremely isolated and totally surrounded by bottomland, so I thought it a worth a look. Brian and I decided that the best way to get to it would be to cross the Pascagoula from a landing on the east bank; beach the kayaks on a big sandbar directly across the River; then, proceed almost directly westward through the forest, a hike of less than a mile.<br />
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<i>Hog Pond is in the center-left of this screenshot I took with my phone. The nearest public landing we could find was at the small blue location dot; the upstream paddle of 1.5 miles to the sandbar would have likely left us a bit exhausted.</i></div>
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Unfortunately, we were not able to find easy access to the River near the sandbar, as the landings nearby were closed to the public. Nearby Horseshoe Lake, off the east bank of the Pascagoula, appeared (on Google Earth, anyway) to perhaps connect to the River through one or perhaps both its ends. We found that this was not so at this time of year, though no doubt the lake gets refreshed annually by the Pascagoula's overflow, and one could probably navigate the bottomland between the lake and the River by kayak at such time. We never made it to Hog Pond that day, but surveyed Horseshoe Lake by kayak.<br />
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<i>Access to Horseshoe Lake was no problem.</i></div>
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<i>A high, sandy bank at the lake's lower end separates it from the Pascagoula. The bluff overlooking the River is a wild tangle of brush, a black willow grove, and broken timber.</i></div>
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I'm glad we did. The lake is not shaped so much like a horseshoe -- more like a ladle, or a fishhook; a quiet, elegant child of the Pascagoula's ancient wanderings. The surrounding mature bottomland and swamp forest is beautiful and invites further exploration, especially a swampy area to the lake's immediate east. As we had already spent an inordinate amount of time driving around, we had to save that investigation for another day.<br />
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<i>Horseshoe Lake launch. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>I found on our last kayaking trip that repairs I'd made to my kayak, the </i>Kuhn, <i>had not worked, and that it was still taking on water through a crack in the hull near the stern. This time I used Krazy Glue, which seemed to do the trick. This latest repair held; I hope it continues to do so.</i></div>
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<i>The trees along the shoreline are magnificent! Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>A family of four white ibises, lingering here very late in the year. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>We hauled the kayaks onto the thick muddy north end of Horseshoe Lake to explore on foot. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Dry swamp forest past the lake's north end. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Giant leopard moth caterpillar. I remember people calling them "wooly bear" caterpillars when I was a kid growing up in rural Jasper County, Mississippi.</i></div>
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<i>Returning to the kayaks after exploring the lake's north end. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>A lone anhinga was one of the few birds beside the ibises we observed. Anhingas and cormorants in flight always give me pause. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Rounding the bend along the lake's southwestern shoreline. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>A baldcypress with the bark stripped off. We've seen this kind of work before in the Pascagoula River Basin, and can usually attribute it to gray squirrels.</i></div>
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<i>Trying to get the </i>Kuhn <i>still long enough to photograph these cavities through the trees was maddening. There were many, many cavities in the trees within eyeshot, though we didn't see any woodpeckers.</i></div>
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<i>White ibis, upper right.</i></div>
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<i>Brian couldn't help but note the fascinating, twisted shapes of the trees. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Blue mistflower. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>A warmer than average autumn has bought the spiders a little extra hunting time. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Crossing back to the landing. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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We drove around a little bit afterward before heading to the Benndale Super Stop for our usual meal of their excellent chicken strips. Though we neither saw nor heard anything directly suggestive of Ivorybills on this trip, I hope to return to Horseshoe Lake and explore the surrounding area on foot.</div>
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As a bonus, I returned home with a souvenir of the swamp, a work of art by the Pascagoula River:</div>
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<i>I found it in a mad jumble of driftwood atop the sandy ridge between Horseshoe Lake and the River. It now hangs on the wall by my desk at home, where I have written so much about our experiences in the swamps and bottomlands.</i></div>
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I am not a materially wealthy man; but I'm one of the luckiest people I know, to be able to search for one of the rarest and most spectacular birds, in some of the most serenely beautiful wilderness on Earth. My only regret so far is that I didn't start sooner.</div>
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Christopher Carlislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978799094610376978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000088774308055468.post-84283062926303031212017-10-21T07:45:00.001-05:002017-10-21T07:48:36.354-05:00Surveilling the Leaf Wilderness, 14 October 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Going into the fall search season, I determined to spend greater time in still hunts in some of the more promising Ivorybill habitat we have surveyed. Towards that end, I recently spent nearly three hours sitting on a baldcypress hip in the 900+ acre Leaf Wilderness Area. I pass by the Wilderness regularly on my trips to the Pascagoula River Swamp, but this was the first time I'd set foot there in nearly three years. There one may pass through four woodland types between the highway and the Leaf River (a major tributary of the Pascagoula River): first, upland pine forest; then a thin band of slope forest along an old river bluff; islands of bottomland hardwoods; and tupelo-baldcypress swamp forest, which comprises most of the area of the Wilderness. It is all mostly mature second growth, with at least two relict baldcypresses that my brother Brian and I discovered when we first explored the area in 2014.<br />
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I got there well after dawn on what would become a clear, warm (70s-80s) day. I had originally intended to surveil an area much farther south, in Elephant Man Swamp, in the Stronghold sector of the northern Pascagoula WMA; but there were many hunters there, and I had not worn any orange. There were no hunters in the Leaf Wilderness when I drove back up there. I hiked through the strip of pine woods, past the neglected visitor center, and over the railroad tracks; then, through the narrow band of slope forest, and into the swamp. I moved very slowly, taking about an hour before reaching Treebeard, a relict baldcypress some 300 yards into the Wilderness.<br />
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<i>Site (the blue dot) of my still hunt, by the relict baldcypress "Treebeard."</i></div>
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<i>Bigleaf magnolia near rotting pine snag near the visitor center.</i></div>
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<i>Moving into the slope forest from the railroad tracks.</i></div>
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<i>Pine and white oak are plentiful in the narrow band of slope forest.</i></div>
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<i>Despite what this photo might suggest, it is relatively easy moving through the slope forest.</i></div>
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<i>The slope forest ends rather abruptly, and the swamp begins.</i></div>
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<i>Woodpecker work on a hollow tupelo.</i></div>
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<i>The water here was shallow enough to make slow, steady progress possible.</i></div>
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<i>I encountered no snakes in the Wilderness that day, though my brother and I had found cottonmouths to be plentiful here on prior visits.</i></div>
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<i>Treebeard is not the largest relict baldcypress we have found in the Pascagoula River Basin, but he was the first.</i></div>
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<i>I watched a pair of pileated woodpeckers working on a cavity in a nearby baldcypress. They moved about my area, calling and clucking to one another. I heard other pileateds nearby, as well as flickers, red-bellied woodpeckers, and downy woodpeckers.</i></div>
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Though I neither saw nor heard anything suggestive of Ivorybills that day, the variety of mature forest types within the Leaf Wilderness, as well as its rather strategic location between the vast upland pine woods of the DeSoto National Forest and the Pascagoula River Swamp -- not to mention the sighting by Jack Merritt in December of 1960, somewhere in the vicinity -- make it worthy of more still hunts in the future.<br />
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Stallings combing the Delta for the ivory-billed woodpecker</h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">By William Browning, News Editor</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">Recreated with the permission of</span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px;"> <a href="http://www.gwcommonwealth.com/" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 255); color: #225588; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Greenwood Commonwealth</a></i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">Friday, January 4, 2008 </span></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">
Jim Stallings is combing Delta forests trying to find a strikingly sleek, smooth, powerful bird that no human eye has officially seen in more than 60 years.</div>
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"When I'm deer hunting, instead of hunting deer I'm sitting there looking for that bird," the 49-year-old Greenwood native said in a tone that half mocked his new passion.</div>
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Stallings admits that he wasn't looking for the fabled, elusive ivory-billed woodpecker 20 years ago, "but had I known about it, I probably would have been."</div>
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It's been an endangered species since 1967. The last authentic documented sighting came out of northwestern Louisiana in 1944. Some scientists fear that the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct. Others hold out hope.</div>
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"Some people believe that there may be a few left," said Nick Winstead, an ornithologist with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson. "Some people think they're out there lingering in scattered areas."</div>
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In some circles, the bird has attained Elvis-like status. Each year, reports of a sighting bob to the surface, though none have been verified. Even a 2004 sighting in Arkansas that came with a four-second video failed to trigger across-the-board acceptance of its existence; it only stoked the verve of amateur bird watchers and scientists alike.</div>
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"It is certainly a very compelling piece of evidence," Dr. Martjan Lammertink, an ornithologist at Cornell University, said of the footage. Many consider Lammertink, 36, the world's leading expert on large woodpeckers. "Since then there have been a lot of follow-up searches. And people are fanning out those searches."</div>
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Count Stallings, who is working toward a degree in sociology at Delta State University, as one of the ivory-billed woodpeckers' new devotees.</div>
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"I grew up in the outdoors," said Stallings, who retired from the United States Air Force in 2005 after 22 years of service. "But for a long time I didn't know that much about birds. I knew they flew and that you shoot ducks. That was it."</div>
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But when he enrolled in Dr. Mark Bonta's "Environmental History of the Delta" geography course, all that changed.</div>
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"We had to do a research paper, and it was between doing mine on water conservation or these birds," Stallings said. "I could have done it on water conservation and been done with it. That would have been easy. But I thought about it and decided that it was time to tackle something that everybody would benefit from."</div>
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According to Winstead, Stallings' decision to focus his search in the Delta is as good as any.</div>
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"Certainly in the past, the Delta would have been a prime habitat for them," said Winstead, 28. "The birds needed large patches of forests where dead wood could be found."</div>
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The birds could find the larvae of wood beetles, their chief food source, in dead wood - "but after colonization, most of that habitat was eliminated," he said.</div>
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Winstead added that the stretch of land between the two levees on the Mississippi River offers locations that the bird could possibly frequent.</div>
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"Every time I go out looking for it, I want to go more and more," Stallings said. "Yeah, you could say I'm hooked."</div>
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Stallings' quasi-obsession with the woodpecker, which averages a 30-inch wingspan and 20-inch-long body, doesn't surprise Lammertink.</div>
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"It is an absolutely stunning bird," said Lammertink, who in 2007 marched a mobile search team across five Southeastern states in search of the bird. "It is the biggest North American woodpecker; a powerful, fine, graceful animal; awe-inspiring. That is definitely part of the appeal."</div>
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Another appeal, Lammertink said, is that the bird is near extinction. Still there is a glimmer of hope that some remain.</div>
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For the past three weeks Stallings has been loading up his gear, heading into Delta forests and praying to see - or at least hear the distinctive "double-knock" of - an ivory billed woodpecker.</div>
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To remind himself how the bird's distinctive knock sounds, Stallings carries with him a 1935 recording made in deep-woods Louisiana by Arthur Allen, who was head of the Cornell ornithology lab.</div>
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So far, Stallings' search has led him through Morgan's Brake, Tallahatchie County, Dahomey, Malmaison, Delta National Park, Panther Swamp, Anderson Tully, Mahannah and St. Catherine Creek. Down the road, he plans to branch out through the Desoto National Forest, the Pascagoula River and the Bogue Chitto River.</div>
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"Just to know that the bird is alive and continues to live, that would be enough for me," Stallings said, admitting that he hasn't had any luck so far. "Maybe it will be me who finds it; maybe it will be someone else. I don't care. Just having it back would be enough."</div>
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Winstead, who has worked for the Museum of Natural Science for three years, was a bit more candid.</div>
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"It would be very cool if he could find one."</div>
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Christopher Carlislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978799094610376978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000088774308055468.post-45064906377192687032017-09-23T19:32:00.001-05:002017-09-23T19:46:50.357-05:00Return to Titan: 9 September 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I happened upon the area I would call Titan Swamp in early December 2015. It lies along a west-central edge of the Pascagoula Wildlife Management Area (WMA), tucked between the mouth of Black Creek and that of his sister Red Creek a little further south. These two blackwater streams flow southeastward through the Pine Belt to eventually empty into Cypress Creek, an overflow channel of the Pascagoula, which rejoins the greater Pascagoula River some miles downstream. Numerous smaller unnamed channels and sloughs crisscross the muddy bottomland between Red and Black Creeks, ebbing and flowing with the rains, merging for a while when the Pascagoula floods the forest.<br />
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In December 2015, I was able to explore a small part of Titan Swamp on foot, and was amazed at the number of huge baldcypress and tupelos that I found there. At that time, my interest lay primarily in seeing for myself the land nearest the creek mouths, and in exploring Woodpecker Island to the east, formed by the overflow channel Cypress Creek. I walked along the edge of drying Titan, then across its lower end, marveling at the trees as names for them formed in my mind. After a half hour or so, I assumed I'd seen its extent, and moved on, leaving the rest of the land between the creeks for another time. When I finally got back there this past September 9, I found I'd been mistaken.<br />
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Brian and I drove along the WMA road through Red Swamp to the landing on Cypress Creek, putting in our kayaks a half hour after dawn. It was 61 degrees (Fahrenheit), breezy and clear; hunting season is not yet here, so we had the woods to ourselves. Biting insects made themselves scarce. It was, in short, an almost perfect day to be afield.<br />
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I'd thought we would kayak up Cypress Creek to the mouth of Red Creek, then continue up the latter, eventually easing up a small inlet on the north shore; there we would secure the kayaks, then hike northeastward to the edge of Titan Swamp, cut west overland, and bear slowly southward until returning to Red Creek and the kayaks. This we did, mostly, but ended up meandering all the way through Titan Swamp, emerging on the south bank of Black Creek. We sat for a while there, eating snacks and drinking our bottled water, listening to red-headed woodpeckers argue among themselves. From there we cut hard west-southwest, but we overshot our entry route which forced us into a switchback pattern among some wide, wooded sloughs before finally reaching the kayaks near midday.<br />
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Our hike took us through some of the finest mature bottomland forest we've yet found in the Basin. Heavy shade, along with frequent flooding from the nearby creeks, means the forest is largely clear of underbrush. Shagbark hickory is common there among the usual water oaks and sweet gums. I was surprised at the number of immense tupelos and baldcypresses lining the many sloughs that link Titan Swamp with the two creeks. Some of the larger sloughs barred our way at times and would have made foot passage impossible in seasons of higher water. White ibises croaked at us as we struggled through the thick gray mud to get better looks at particularly impressive baldcypresses and tupelos. There are, perhaps, more relicts in Titan Swamp per acre than anywhere else in the Pascagoula River Swamp; and Titan itself, as I found out, is not simply restricted to the small tract I'd explored back in 2015, as I had thought. It instead comprises the whole area between lower Black Creek and Red Creek.<br />
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(I apologize if my description of the lay of the land is confusing. It is a complex picture, one I am still coming to understand more fully.)<br />
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<i>Morning on Cypress Creek. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Slipping into another world. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Nearing the mouth of Red Creek. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>We saw two young raccoons up a tree during our hike. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Titan Swamp, near Black Creek. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Not far from Black Creek, we found an enormous tupelo, which Brian named 'Fat Bottomed Girl.' Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>The largest of the relict baldcypresses we encountered, safe from our close inspection in his deep slough. I had difficulty getting a photo.</i></div>
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<i>I have named this tree the Hurliman Cypress, in honor of my friend Dean Hurliman of Iowa, carver, poet, and kindred spirit. Dean's carving of a male Ivorybill in flight hangs above my desk as I type this, one of several he has very generously gifted to others in the Ivorybill community; he recently sent a pair to the Audubon Center at Moss Point, MS. Dean, you may be in Iowa, but you are always with us.</i></div>
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<i>Screen shot from Brian's phone showing location of the Hurliman Cypress (large blue dot). The large stream flowing generally north-south in the middle is Cypress Creek. The Hurliman Cypress lies between Black Creek to the north and Red Creek to the south. East of Cypress Creek lies Woodpecker Island.</i></div>
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<i>Another view of the shy Hurliman Cypress. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Typical bottomland near Red Creek. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Me, over-thinking a challenge again. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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<i>Maybe I'm getting to old for this. I hope not. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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Such impressive habitat, combined with that of the greater Pascagoula River Swamp and the adjoining upland pine forest along the edge of the Basin, could certainly offer strong refuge to any relict population of Ivorybills that might still haunt the area. While we saw no unusual feeding sign or particularly striking woodpecker cavities, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," as the saying goes. The quality of the habitat, combined with its remoteness, difficulty of access, and general ruggedness, all give Titan Swamp high marks in my book. <br />
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A mixed flock of white ibises, wood storks, and great egrets watched us from Red Swamp as we drove out. The ibises and storks have probably already moved south for the winter. In a couple of months, the forest here will lose much of its foliage, making it harder for big, elusive things to hide from prying eyes. As always, autumn brings a sense of hope and anticipation of what the coming months hold for those of us who walk in old Ivorybill country.<br />
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My brother Brian Carlisle and I returned to the Stronghold on August 19, after many months' absence. Our goal was a quick survey of our old haunts, to get a feel for the area after our unusually wet summer, and to reconnect with what for us has become a deeply spiritual place.<br />
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A fast-retreating quarter moon before a hazy dawn found us far along the old trail I call Hollow Man Road, which cuts north-south through the Hutson Lake sector in the north-central Pascagoula Wildlife Management Area (WMA). Little if any wind moved for the duration of our hike, and the humid air warmed quickly. The denizens of the Swamp kept mostly silent and largely to themselves, though we encountered numerous golden silk orb weaver spiders, almost comically fearful of us despite their menacing appearance. It was a quick trip down to the relict baldcypress Hollow Man, where we set up a brief Watch in the deep woods along his small lake. A pair of Pileated Woodpeckers livened things up for a few minutes, and I spotted a lone Yellow-crowned Night Heron wrangling something reddish out of the muck on the shore opposite. Some distant, heavy tapping, likely Pileateds at work, gave us pause; and the drumming of red-headed woodpeckers at times rang out over the still bottomland to the north and east of our position. After an hour or so we decided to seek the air conditioning of Brian's truck. On the way, we spotted at least two juvenile Little Blue Herons and a white ibis haunting still waters among the trees, but few other feathered things aside from the usual crows and cardinals, and no mammals at all. It truly is the Spiders' time, and they are welcome to it. It is short enough.<br />
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From Hutson Lake we drove north, crossing Mississippi Highway 26 to another section of the WMA. We put our kayaks in at Dace Lake (or Dacy Lake, depending on the map), a small oxbow we have hiked near and visited a number of times, but never kayaked. It was around ten in the morning, and nothing was moving around the lake, save a small family of white ibis and a few turtles. Repairs I made over the summer to my boat, the <i>Kuhn, </i>seemed to have been successful, confirming the craft will be able to bear me again beyond terra firma, as needed. As usual, I have some ideas where I would like to explore in the months ahead.<br />
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<i>Near this year's new beaver dam. Photo: Brian Carlisle.</i></div>
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The bottomland lies still and dreaming while August simmers, but change is afoot. The days are already cooling here, enough to take the edge off a hot day hike in the Swamp. After this rainy summer, I wonder what challenges we will face come fall and winter -- paths newly revealed, others now hidden, all at the whim of the River.</div>
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My brother and I are honored to have our story in the Summer 2017 issue of <i>Mississippi Wildlife, </i>the annual magazine of the Mississippi Wildlife Federation. The article, "Adventures in Old Ivorybill Country," provides a short narrative of the Ivorybill, its relationship with mankind, and a very brief account of our own experiences in the Pascagoula River Basin, with Brian's photographs offering glimpses of the magnificent Swamp. My wife Susanne, and my sister-in-law Lindsey, were kind enough to proofread the article before submission, for which Brian and I are grateful.<br />
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It is only the first week of August, but the shadows of early morning and late afternoon hint of September; and I am restless. Norman MacLean wrote, "I am haunted by waters." I am, too; though mine are less noisy, are deeper and darker, and are less respectful of boundaries.<br />
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My brother Brian and I took our children -- his son Gavin (3+), my stepson Aslan (13), and my daughter Belle (12) -- out early on the morning of April 1, for a taste of the wild Pascagoula River Basin. We explored along the River itself at Sandy Wash Bend; stopped at one of the Rimes Lakes, where we were watched by a pair of swallow-tailed kites; and went for a short hike on the south end of the Stronghold, where the old forest road bisects Elephant Man Swamp. We visited Hollow Man, who allowed the children to stand inside him, and hiked a little further up to the new beaver dam.<br />
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It was a long drive down for them, and they had to get up very early. We were done and headed back north out of the Basin by noon. We all had a great time. The kids felt the current of the longest undammed river in the lower 48 states, and experienced firsthand true swamp and bottomland forest. <br />
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It was a day Brian and I could have spent exploring a new corner of the Pascagoula River Swamp, or monitoring the Stronghold for a few hours; but I hope bringing the children to this place will yield results far beyond my field of vision.<br />
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