Giant Trees Of Louisiana & Ancient West FL *GRAPHIC FOOTAGE*

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  • čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
  • The southeast United States boasts some of the oldest and largest Bald Cypress trees on Earth. A number of the largest known trees are believed to be between 500 and 3000 years old. Despite their beauty and value to the country's wetlands, the vast majority of The South's cypress swamps were razed in order to feed the then booming logging industry.

Komentáře • 107

  • @JasonBrinkley-ef4zg
    @JasonBrinkley-ef4zg Před 8 měsíci +15

    Look into the Naval Live Oak preserve in Gulf Breeze FL. Tons of giant live oaks with a series of ancient mounds that are being kept hidden from the public. They have a ridiculous amount of park rangers watching that place considering the size of it. They even have a house in the neighborhood right next to the largest mound that has a Florida Public Archaeology Network employee there 24/7. The name of the street it's on is Mound Circle and most people are clueless it's there. It's not far from Pensacola which has a weird history and contains a starfort (Fort Pickens). Would love to see you do a video on it.

  • @Jo-the-fixer
    @Jo-the-fixer Před 9 měsíci +26

    I live in the northwestern part Louisiana and I like it here. Wish there was still big trees like this around

    • @shipit59
      @shipit59 Před 9 měsíci +5

      toledo bend used to be a huge forest before it was turned into a resovouir ever dug into the history of the lake? ive fished it thousands of times and seen the massive stump fields that used to be forests

    • @Jo-the-fixer
      @Jo-the-fixer Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@shipit59 when I was in my early 20s my older brother and I used to bow fish out there after it almost dried up during a drought we had close to 15 years ago. I've done most my fishing out of ponds and the red River and some on cypress lake. I love only 1 min from Wallace lake but it's real easy to get lost out there.

    • @shipit59
      @shipit59 Před 9 měsíci +4

      @@Jo-the-fixer we used to fish Wallace lake all the time when I was a kid. I spent hundreds of days at the dam. The red river has some old flooded forests on it too. White House and ninock are two that I’ve been to a lot

    • @tylerkeller7589
      @tylerkeller7589 Před 9 měsíci +2

      ​@@shipit59wow that is sad but kinda cool.

    • @oldworldflorida
      @oldworldflorida  Před 9 měsíci +1

      ⚜️⚜️⚜️

  • @samcarroll7451
    @samcarroll7451 Před 9 měsíci +21

    I live in East Texas and work as a logger years ago i found what is possibly the largest and oldest cypress in TX. Its over ,54 feet in circumference 80-90 feet tall

    • @oldworldflorida
      @oldworldflorida  Před 9 měsíci +5

      Lets see it!

    • @SkyeSage17
      @SkyeSage17 Před 9 měsíci +1

      WOW Cool...I'm near u. I love to see it. Tree lovers 🌳🌲

    • @mr.yellowstrat3352
      @mr.yellowstrat3352 Před 9 měsíci +4

      ​@@oldworldfloridaIf he's a logger, it might not be there anymore unless they spared it

    • @guyanaspice6730
      @guyanaspice6730 Před 9 měsíci

      @@oldworldflorida Great Vid ! THANKS.
      I commented on Kurimeo Ahau recent Vids on Olmec; he's getting more valuable info. here's my comment on olmec part 2 :
      BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL !!! now please have an open mind about a Pre Panama Canal but not in Panama. possibly Costa Rica and/or Nicaragua; just something i contend MUST have been Man Made in ancient times. there is the large lake in Nicaragua as a clue - maybe; rivers in Costa Rica that seem to span from pacific to caribbean sea. these could be for small boats; however, i do think as Old World Florida suggests, there were Massive ships; hence, much larger canals would have been man made. i just can't see people then traveling allll the way around Cape Horn. they Definitely made canals.
      on another note is the Mountain ranges in south america : West coast, Peru, to northern south america to venezuela to caribbean islands beginning in Trinidad (close to Venezuela). these mountains extend to central america as i mentioned. you will figure it all out; i can't. your open mind will probably be able to discovery the history of canals and travel routes via mountains and water.
      somehow, sea levels and some environmental event caused Many changes.
      you have the Passion and research to figure it all out. please accept many other views to get a better grasp. thanks Again!

  • @bm7291
    @bm7291 Před 9 měsíci +11

    Dr. Longo, I have been patiently waiting for a scholarly gentleman such as yourself to start diving deep into the true history of my beautiful state of Louisiana, and all I can say is THANK YOU I’m here for it all day, you the man!!!!!! 😎

  • @fesquemonkey9784
    @fesquemonkey9784 Před 9 měsíci +14

    The giant trees that were brought down by the great flood made the first boats for Hamites to get back to America/Florida Eden Garden on the current from West Africa to the Caribbean w droge stones, no sails needed.

  • @Whomadegod
    @Whomadegod Před 9 měsíci +8

    My favorite tree. Ive been obsessing about them for the past week. Great minds think alike. I know the third and last men talking because I just saw those videos last week. The montezuma cypress is the national tree of Mexico. Here in San Antonio cypress are the jewels to our riverwalk. Im getting ready to collect seeds and make hundreds of trees to plant them everywhere/donate them.

  • @plumeriaforest
    @plumeriaforest Před 9 měsíci +11

    Louisiana is magical! ✨

  • @tylerkeller7589
    @tylerkeller7589 Před 9 měsíci +7

    So sad! I feel like if these were around today we would fight harder to save them.

  • @Sinailionspride
    @Sinailionspride Před 9 měsíci +5

    I am from the Olympic National Park areas Northern border in NW corner of the USA..and yes...those are some very big and old trees you've got down there.I was expecting palm trees!

    • @oldworldflorida
      @oldworldflorida  Před 9 měsíci +1

      ⚜️⚜️⚜️

    • @hawaiiguykailua6928
      @hawaiiguykailua6928 Před 9 měsíci

      I'm in eastern Washington. Our canyons leading into the cascades appear to be old gargantuan trees we call canyons. It's all verticle hexagonal "basalt" which is bizarre. Real cherry on top is all over the sides of the 500-1k+ ft walls are what look like old broken tree branch holes that came off the "cliff walls" There's hundreds of giant radial columnar rock a hundred ft diameter and more. They look like cartoon blast patterns from an iron bars jailbreak road runner episode. Strange realm. If you're ever in the Yakima area drive around the canyons heading into the Tieton area😊

  • @NanceH11
    @NanceH11 Před 9 měsíci +4

    My sister has a lake house in La right on the Mississippi with majestic cypress trees.

  • @ClemtonianGrizball
    @ClemtonianGrizball Před 8 měsíci +3

    I recently discovered Louisiana’s largest Live Oak “the seven sisters, IIt was on a suburban like lot with a house on a normal street in Mandeville Louisiana. It’s not protected. The homeowner could cut it down if they chose heaven forbid. We must do better to protect these old world treasures.

  • @oldshawbones
    @oldshawbones Před 9 měsíci +7

    Cypress wood?...You mean... gopher... wood..? 🤔
    As i live up here on the edge of my beloved swamp, Baldies are my favs with flat-tops bein my absolute favorites!!

    • @oldworldflorida
      @oldworldflorida  Před 9 měsíci +2

      Gopher is separate, this is Bald Cypress

    • @oldshawbones
      @oldshawbones Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@oldworldflorida yeah i know, just quoting this crazy guy up here who thinks all the tree names have been changed so people dont figure out there true historical roles. He watches this channel. he was the one who sent this channel to me when a video about the ark wood was put on here.

  • @brettinoloverromantico4095
    @brettinoloverromantico4095 Před 9 měsíci +7

    The Underwater Forest of Alabama: 60,000 year old Cypress Tree Forest

  • @lastlogicallib
    @lastlogicallib Před 8 měsíci +1

    28:45 Damn this is really good footage, and I’d love to be able to watch that NPR segment, but the old time footage was incredible and on the subject I had no idea I was dying to learn more about. Or whoever put this together.

  • @headnorth7319
    @headnorth7319 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Any info on Mississippi would be greatly appreciated ❤

  • @user-ix3zx8gu3t
    @user-ix3zx8gu3t Před 9 měsíci +8

    I cried.

  • @DivineStar144
    @DivineStar144 Před 9 měsíci

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. LONGO!!!!!… THANK YOU FOR YOU!!!!🙏🏼❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @dailydonkeysaltydabs6056
    @dailydonkeysaltydabs6056 Před 9 měsíci +4

    I bet the climates change can be traced right back to the time of them cutting down all those majestic trees!

    • @bm7291
      @bm7291 Před 9 měsíci +3

      Nah I bet that was all manbearpigs fault
      - Al gore

  • @MCMLXVII1967
    @MCMLXVII1967 Před 9 měsíci +7

    I just went to a nature preserve a few miles from my house and seen bald cypress trees for the first time... In Ohio.

    • @WhiteManXRP
      @WhiteManXRP Před 9 měsíci +1

      Wow really...that is interesting

    • @OwlWhite12
      @OwlWhite12 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I live in NE Ohio, below Medina, may I ask, what preserve are you referring to?🤔I do a lot of hiking in Cuyahoga Valley, so beautiful there.. I’m always looking for new trails.

    • @shipit59
      @shipit59 Před 9 měsíci +2

      louisiana is the seat of the moorish empire the capital of the moors was toledo you guys have a toledo we have a huge lake here called toledo bend in louisiana

    • @MCMLXVII1967
      @MCMLXVII1967 Před 9 měsíci

      I live in Cincinnati and it's called the mccollugh nature preserve. This part of the city is quite far from a river and on top of an Indian mound.

    • @OwlWhite12
      @OwlWhite12 Před 9 měsíci

      @@MCMLXVII1967 oh wow, what a beautiful place! Thank you, I can’t wait to go!🥰👍

  • @Violet-qf8dr
    @Violet-qf8dr Před 9 měsíci +7

    When gathering wild herbs, the rule for conscientious gathering is to only take up to 1/3 of the plant. Why not use the same rule for logging? If you take less trees you preserve the forest.

    • @OwlWhite12
      @OwlWhite12 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Greed.. the folks ravaging our resources in every land only care about their own massive income😔

    • @brianwebber6996_ROADHUNTER
      @brianwebber6996_ROADHUNTER Před 9 měsíci +2

      Why not just use hemp?

    • @ginnydare13
      @ginnydare13 Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@brianwebber6996_ROADHUNTER indeed!

  • @pamelahockenberry6968
    @pamelahockenberry6968 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Thank you

  • @J4themperor
    @J4themperor Před 9 měsíci +6

    Its always sad driving on the 101 in California and seeing the hollowed burnt out bodies of giants on the side of the roads

    • @mattmason4589
      @mattmason4589 Před 9 měsíci

      Cut down to make way for road?

    • @J4themperor
      @J4themperor Před 9 měsíci +3

      @mattmason4589 Tons got cut down prior to the roads even being paved. Lots of old buildings made with old growth redwood for those who could afford it or those who just owned the property the trees grew on. The main industry was logging. Many California towns have abandoned lumber mills. Now, I think it's only a few mills in California that still process new growth redwood. My great grandfather drove a water truck on logging roads, and my grandpa was a trucker till he died. There were lots of railways that the logging industry funded that either aren't in use anymore or were never finished.

    • @ginnydare13
      @ginnydare13 Před 9 měsíci

      I imagine some got burnt out in the fires. The big trees often survive wildfires

    • @reneepina-br1of
      @reneepina-br1of Před 2 měsíci +1

      Lived in orick northern Humboldt in the 90s ..those were hit by lightning at times..refered to as goosepens back in the day....check out the dyerville giant tree

  • @johnclark1612
    @johnclark1612 Před 9 měsíci +4

    I saw black squirrels and grasshoppers on one side of the park and green hoppers and brown squarrels on the other, this was in Morgan City Louisiana. Are they smarter than humans?

  • @LuziannMan
    @LuziannMan Před 2 měsíci

    My grandpa told me that his father told him when they were building the first skyscrapers in New Orleans they would regularly run into these gigantic ancient cypress stumps 50 and 60ft in diameter sometimes bigger buried in the land while driving pilings to support the weight of the huge buildings. They were unable to get through or move the ancient stumps so they left them there and (if not decayed completely, as this would have been sometime in the 1940's) are possibly still there today buried under the foundation of New Orleans. His guess was at one time there must have been an ancient forest with cypress trees of unbelievable proportions that stood where the city stands today.
    Even my neighbour told me while digging under his house in the late 90's for a plumbing job that he and my dad ran into a giant stump that he said was an estimated 20ft in diameter based on how much of it they uncovered and it was sitting about 4ft down under the northwestern corner of the foundation slab. He said it was incredible to see a tree stump of that size just buried beneath the slab of his house.

  • @donknottz489
    @donknottz489 Před 8 měsíci

    I just went to the Centralia sawmill ruins in hernando county! Longo hit me up next time your up here I'd love to take you to the spot! definitely off the beaten path and forgotten... Still giant cypress logs at the bottom going towards the swamp

  • @hiddenamericachannel
    @hiddenamericachannel Před 8 měsíci +1

    I actually have a picture of the big Cypress over near Orlando before that base head burned it down......
    Also heres an update about the Potential Saxer Stones on 4th Street North in St. Petersburg: The oyster bar where the stones sat closed down and someone took EVERY stone I filmed! So those may very well have been real Saxer Stones. They were really big and someone took the time to remove them because they are gone. And it probably took a little bit of energy because one was really big and terribly heavy. So If anyone knows what happened to the stones I filmed out front of the Oyster Bar on 4th Street it would be interesting to know where they went. I took the video down but I probably should have kept it up....Let's hope the stones found a good home away from the noise of 4th Street North. There's actually a dentist office on 4th and 76th Ave North that have melted stones that most people don't know about, if you're in the area, you may wanna check those out. Take care!
    👊😎

    • @hiddenamericachannel
      @hiddenamericachannel Před 8 měsíci

      Actually found another potential Saxer Stone along Gulf Blvd in Treasure Island today! Another Florida State Hidden Package!

  • @jonsupp1744
    @jonsupp1744 Před 9 měsíci +1

    GREAT VIDEO. SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE AS BEST AS YOU CAN.

  • @Wearephuct-O
    @Wearephuct-O Před 9 měsíci +1

    Heads up said this would air @ 2:AM

  • @warrior4JC
    @warrior4JC Před 8 měsíci +1

    Have you heard of Leeds last name is Colnen or Colnenth not positive on the last name? He built his coral castle in Florida using what he called his harmonic code to move huge chunks of coral for his castle. Rock Gate Park / Coral Castle. I'd love to dig deeper on this man .

  • @freedomdove
    @freedomdove Před 8 měsíci

    Great video. Thanks!

  • @elenorrigby100
    @elenorrigby100 Před 8 měsíci

    Yesterday i was out with my daughter in the back yard in the swamp yesterday investigating a little trail made by probably deer. The swamp is dry right now, well the ground is soft but walkable.
    My swamp is loaded with stumps. I pointed to a random stump and said you see how big that is? Well those used to be to a giant cypress people cut down to use the wood. We had giant trees here in florida.i have 5 acres of nothing but swamp and it is full of the stumps.
    The random stump i pointed to had to be about 6-7 ft big.
    If you ever want to check them out, let me know. This little swamp has been granfathered in by the family, protected and untouched by loggers for about 100 years. My little chunck of land was swamp up until the early 70s but as time went, the swamp dried and gave me 2 acres to enjoy. The 5 acres of swamp is most accessable from now until about march although accessable all year, the overgrowth is dying out for winter.
    We were in there yesterday looking for little newts and salamanders and sirens. They are abundant in there

  • @pauljohnstone8989
    @pauljohnstone8989 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Birds from the south in canada now. Bluebirds

  • @WhiteManXRP
    @WhiteManXRP Před 9 měsíci +2

    Makes me so mad when I see trees getting cut down, it frustrates me beyond comprehension, unless it's mature, and starting to rot

    • @ginnydare13
      @ginnydare13 Před 9 měsíci +1

      There's a fringe tree in my backyard. It started to die, it was literally falling over, branches were dead. I started to cut it down by cutting the dead branches off, leaving only the trunk. The dang thing then came back to life!!! It looks funny but it put out a bunch of new growth.

  • @lorettaenz4828
    @lorettaenz4828 Před 9 měsíci +6

    It's sad what we are doing to this beautiful earth we were given to take care of, not destroy. This generation only thinks about $$$.

    • @Ty91681
      @Ty91681 Před 9 měsíci +4

      This generation? This has been going on for over 200 years, minimum.

  • @ginnydare13
    @ginnydare13 Před 9 měsíci

    I live next to an old cypress swamp, my house was renovated in 1924, not sure how old it is. It has a garage built out of raw cypress logs, everything around them is eat up with termites.

  • @teatoy1986
    @teatoy1986 Před 8 měsíci

    Esoteric info... Essential oil of cypress and patchouli together equals feminine Aquarius. Pine and peppermint together equals masculine Aquarius...

  • @shipit59
    @shipit59 Před 9 měsíci +1

    i live in northwestern louisiana every lake here has cypress trees

  • @SkyeSage17
    @SkyeSage17 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Born a bayou.🐊

  • @claytonwalker55
    @claytonwalker55 Před 9 měsíci

    I fkn love these old feetages

  • @OwlWhite12
    @OwlWhite12 Před 9 měsíci +4

    😔

  • @georgekerr6910
    @georgekerr6910 Před 9 měsíci

    Can you still buy cypress boards in south Florida cheap? It was really great wood I can’t find any in Mobile Alabama

    • @durbeshpatel3047
      @durbeshpatel3047 Před 8 měsíci

      Can you still buy cypress boards in south Florida cheap? It was really great wood I can't find any in Mobile Alabama

  • @alltheworldsastage.
    @alltheworldsastage. Před 8 měsíci +1

    Its sad.
    This is the reason why human live for barely 100 years instead of hundreds of years.
    Trees speak but majority of us don't realize or care.
    Snakes in the grass cut them down so human have more health issues

  • @barbaraemanuel1379
    @barbaraemanuel1379 Před 9 měsíci +1

    the logging corps. got rich molesting trees. then the government steps in with lots of cash (our taxes) and trying to restore. vicious cycle of money washing.
    was out wandering up the old highway 41.(part that's only 2 narrow lanes) somewere n of Brooksville. and happened on a area of harvested cypress as far as I could see and venture it was heartbreaking. to see all the stumps. the feeling there was sad.

  • @suziperret468
    @suziperret468 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Too bad men were so greedy to cut down these magnificent old growth trees , that could by thousands of years old, with absolutely no consideration to the environmental niche they occupied. What careless destruction !

  • @GodOfFuck777
    @GodOfFuck777 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I say put all oil metal and crystals back in mother earth . Where they belong . And put the trees back where they belong so she isnt bald . Think asland . Lion witch and the wardrobe

  • @gabrieldegloria9606
    @gabrieldegloria9606 Před 9 měsíci +2

    This is a disaster on film.😢

  • @dirtywhiteboy4963
    @dirtywhiteboy4963 Před 9 měsíci

    NO HARD HATS? NO ORANGE CONES? NOBODY SLOWING THINGS UP?

  • @1HorseOpenSlay
    @1HorseOpenSlay Před 8 měsíci

    😭😭😭

  • @situationsixtynine8743
    @situationsixtynine8743 Před 9 měsíci +1

    The destructive nature 🗑️

  • @jameshudson7053
    @jameshudson7053 Před 9 měsíci

    Thanks man.. I love trees and forests. Theres a swampy, wooded area on our property behind our house and I make bandsaw boxes and lathe turnings from dead wood I find back there. At the moment I have cherry, cedar, oak, b. cypress, y. pine... You would be surprised at what you can find out there!🍄😁🌴🍊🍊🍊

  • @Truthseaaker
    @Truthseaaker Před 7 měsíci +1

    Noahs ark was made from gofer wood. Gofer wood only grows in one place on earth...Florida

    • @thomaspaine7098
      @thomaspaine7098 Před 6 měsíci

      So they named a tree after one the Bible made up

    • @marklane870
      @marklane870 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@thomaspaine7098negative

  • @alfspacealiencateater4786
    @alfspacealiencateater4786 Před 9 měsíci +2

    What was “graphic m” ?

    • @ginnydare13
      @ginnydare13 Před 9 měsíci

      Fresh bodies everywhere, and the massacre that felled them.

  • @washnon
    @washnon Před 9 měsíci +1

    so fucking sad

  • @LowTideLowLife
    @LowTideLowLife Před 2 měsíci

    What did they use the lumber for as ive been a Remodeler of high end homes here on N FLo° for 35yrs and dont ever see this material in building.

  • @LowTideLowLife
    @LowTideLowLife Před 2 měsíci

    There is a oak tree in the middle of an island on ICW with a oyster midden on the back side that faces the real Ft Caroline.

  • @georgekerr6910
    @georgekerr6910 Před 9 měsíci

    Can you still buy cypress boards in south Florida cheap? It was really great wood I can’t find any in Mobile Alabama

    • @durbeshpatel3047
      @durbeshpatel3047 Před 8 měsíci

      Can you still buy cypress boards in south Florida cheap? It was really great wood I can't find any in Mobile Alabama