John's Bayou 70 years later

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In January 2007, I visited the Tensas region in northeast Louisiana near Tallulah.

This photo was taken from Sharkey Road looking northeast towards John's Bayou. As you can see a lot has changed since the late 1930s. The area where the Cornell expedition of 1935 found the nesting ivorybills and Tanner did as well—all three years of his research—is now completely treeless, an agricultural field.

Soybeans or cotton are planted here during spring. This tract is in private ownership; it borders the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge.

The trees in the distance grow along the winding bayou itself.

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