Louisiana Bicentennial Cypress Legacy Treasure Hunt

A Registry of the Oldest/Largest Known Cypress in Each Louisiana Parish

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Acadia Parish

Allen Parish

Ascension Parish

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Assumption Parish 2945.844N 9104.927W 236 (at waist height0 In Zig Zag Canal off Lake Verrett

Assumption Parish

16 ft (est) 3000.820N 9111.044W

350+ Years Plaque #21

Rue de Kajun., PierrePart

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Core Length/ Rings Counted 1.5 39 rings

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Avoyelles Parish

32 31.16. 442N 91.54.058 W

800-1000 years

See Aug 12, 2009 Blog Entry

Beauregard Parish

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Core Length/ Rings Counted 13 590

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Bienville Parish

26

1000+ yrs Plaque #5

Saline Bayou Big Cypress Preserve

3215.035N 9258.600W

Bossier Parish

Caddo Parish

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Calcasieu Parish

Caldwell Parish

Cameron Parish

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Core Length/ Rings Counted 4 63 rings

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Catahoula Parish

234

500+ years Plaque #3

(private property)

3147.355N 9148.215W

Claiborne Parish

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Concordia Parish 35 feet (nine feet above base-above buttress) 31.0414N 91.600317W 1st boring: 2.6 inches approx . 94 rings counted 2nd boring 3.8 inches approx 100 rings counted 1500+ years

DeSoto Parish

East Baton Rouge Parish N 30. 36.457 W 90. 59.458 116

14.5 170

200 years

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East Carroll Parish N32.48.422 W91.10.493 17 14 117 rings counted 250 years Byerly Park Lake ProviDense LPCL Plaque # 29 East Feliciana Parish

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Evangeline Parish

3027.890 N 9224.009W

220

1st 2.75 600-800 2nd 3.25 years 53 rings

Near Crowley (private roperty)

Franklin Parish

Grant Parish

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Iberia Parish N 30 06.059, W 91 39.084 17ft. 3 inches Rings counted: Approxim ately 116 1000+ years Lake Dauterive See Jan 2011 blog entry

IbervilleParish 30.06.173N 91.19.916W 168 (a) 2.63 rings counted: 85 (b) 3.25 rings counted: 110 9001100yrs In Williams Canal west of Bayou Sorrell LPCL plaque #12 See Sept.2010 blog entry

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Jackson Parish

Jefferson Parish 20 563 560+ years On Bayou Coquille Trail, Jean Lafitte National Park

Jefferson Davis Parish

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Lafayette Parish

Lafourche Parish

La Salle Parish

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Lincoln Parish

Livingston Parish 3022.708N 181 In access canal to Tickfaw River Tickfaw State Park

9038.135W

Madison Parish

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1st: 1.8 Approx rings:102 2nd: 1.8 Approx rings: 81 3rd: 1 Rings:27

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Morehouse Parish Approx 25 ft 1200+ yrs In Bayou Chemin a haut, Chemin A Haute State Park (Castle Tree)

3291.425N 9183.017W Natchitoches Parish

Orleans Parish 200 years Corner Robert and Baronne St. New Orleans

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Ouachita Parish

Plaquemines Parish 3049.500N 8965.405W 124 4 20 rings 200+ yrs Woodland Plantation

Plaquemines Parish 123 5.5 60 rings 249 years Woodlan ds Trail Conservancy

29.8971 N 89.966583 W

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Pointe Coupee Parish

Rapides Parish

3112.691N 9232.420W

167

11.5 95 rings

257 years

Bayou Boeuf

Red River Parish

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Richland Parish

Sabine Parish

St. Bernard Parish

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Core Length/ Rings Counted 14.75 197 rings

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St. Charles Parish

2948.035N 9025.168 W

144

300+ years

Des Allemand s (private)

St. Helena Parish

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St. James Parish

St. John the BaptistParish

St. Landry Parish

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St. Martin Parish

St. Mary Parish

St. Tammany Parish

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1st: 4.5 75 rings 2nd: 3.5 100 rings

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Tangipahoa Parish 29 (5 above water line) 8001300 years Circum. Is 39 at water line In approx 3.5 feet of water

3027.007N 9019.395W

Tensas Parish 23' 5" 6.8 inches approx, 87 rings 450-500 years. Buckhorn Wildlife Mgmt. Area

3206.681N 9121.940W

Terrebonne Parish

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Union Parish

3244.323N 9211.391W

347

500+ years

Bayou Loutre Phillips Lake

Vermillion Parish

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Vernon Parish

Washington Parish

3049.500N 8949.397W

189

1st 3/48 800-1000 years rings nd 2 2.5/75 rings 3rd 2.5/80 rings

On Pushepatapa Creek, PiggottSw amp Click for more info

Webster Parish

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West Baton Rouge Parish

West Carroll Parish

West Feliciana Parish 56 500+ years National Champion Cat Island NWR

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Winn Parish