Landmark Cypress № 8 — "Asteenahoofa"

Landmark Cypress № 8 — "Asteenahoofa". Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. In the early 1800s, the Seminole tribe sought and found refuge deep in the bald cypress forests of Southwest Florida during the Seminole Wars. This tree bears the Seminole name for big cypress, Asteenahoofa. It is straight, solid and free of defects, and located in a part of the forest difficult to reach due to deep peat and tough terrain., Bald cypress trees like the Asteenahoofa are the largest trees east of the Mississippi. Some of the record-holding cypress trees are not individual trees at all but have multiple trunks that have grown together. A science article published in a 1912 Wilson Bulletin reported the largest known single bald cypress tree in Florida located in the Okaloacoochee Swamp, measuring 32 feet in circumference. That tree was logged, just like most other large cypress trees in the United States. Asteenahoofa contains an estimated 32,000 board feet of merchandisable lumber. It would have been prized by loggers whose axes were halted by Audubon less than a half mile south of this tree.