Save Our Cypress

Crozet Gazette May 14, 2009

There are a couple of types of mulch I would avoid, however. One is cypress, available in bags at some big-box stores. There is at least one website devoted to the evils of cypress mulch, which has nothing to do with it damaging your plants. The issue: bald cypress is not a particularly common tree, being restricted to southern swamps. It does not regenerate rapidly and is vital to the swamp ecosystem. It is a waste of a good and magnificent tree to grind it up and throw it on your garden.

Charles Kidder - Crozet Gazette
http://www.crozetgazette.com

Community Gumbo March 2 2009

Radio Program - Casey DeMoss Roberts explores the impact of cypress mulch on Louisiana’s endangered Cypress forests and the campaign to stop the logging. She interviews three major players involved with the Save Our Cypress Coalition.

Listen to the interviews

Community Gumbo c/o
WTUL New Orleans 91.5 FM

Kimmerer.com November 11, 2008

Mulch made from baldcypress and the closely related pondcypress is prized by landscapers because its long strands create a lasting mulch bed. The native cypress forests of North America, concentrated along the southern Atlantic and Gulf Coast waterways, have been decimated by centuries of logging, erosion and development. Now, vast tracts of cypress are being clear cut for the production of cypress mulch.

Tom Kimmerer, PhD.
Kimmerer.com