City: Naples   County: Collier   Year: 1961
Location: Collier-Seminole State Park off U.S. 41, near San Marco Rd.

Once occupied by the Caloosa Indians and the Spanish, it was the last refuge of the Seminoles. The region is drained in a north- south direction by creeks, rivers, sloughs and swamps. Abounding in wildlife, trees, plants, shrubs and flowers, most of the area is less than fifteen feet in elevation; but fertile hammock forests dot the higher lands. The ever-present cypress is called the "wood eternal" and is the oldest living thing on earth.

Group of Bald Cypress - 1921

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Bald Cypress Trunk - 1921

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Panther in Tree, Big Cypress Swamp - 1984

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Pond in Big Cypress Swamp - 1929

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