Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Down along the state line in Frankford exists Delaware’s largest freshwater wetland and contiguous block of forest, and perhaps ...

Southern Sussex County's Great Cypress Swamp used to encompass over 50,000 acres, but was nearly destroyed by centuries of fires, logging, ditching and draining. Today, nonprofit Delaware Wild Lands ...

About 4,000 years ago, the once-meandering Mississippi River switched course yet again, forming a delta that eventually led to the creation of Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain while building the ...