These don't have the appealing holes of pecky cypress or the color variation of sinker cypress, but they’re nonetheless beautiful pieces of wood.

It may look like plain lumber to most people, but to furniture maker Skylar Morgan, it’s treasure. Sinker cypress dredged from Louisiana swamps, walnut from Indiana (where the color is richer ...

The art of Cajun boatbuilding, once a necessity in the bayou, has nearly vanished in Louisiana. But one pirogue maker, aided ...

White recalls that sinker cypress taken from the LSU lakes in the 1980s was bluish, almost purple in some cases.