Wateree River

The Francis Marion National Forest covers a quarter million acres between Charleston and the Santee River, Longleaf and Loblolly and Blackwater Creeks.

Up the middle of the state, where the Congaree and the Wateree come together, there's a floodplain forest with some of the tallest trees east of the Mississippi, bald cypress and loblolly pine standing in water half the year, and it's been protected ground since the '70s.

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