ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The Okefenokee Swamp is one of the world’s largest blackwater wetlands. Each experience ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a proposal that would expand the boundary of the Okefenokee National ... better protecting the swamp's hydrological integrity, and to provide ...

Bednarek, executive director of Okefenokee Swamp Park and Adventures ... up spending some of her 20s living in Alaska, working on fishing boats. At the other end of the temperature spectrum ...

Twin Pines claims the mine won’t impact the swamp, but opponents fear the project will cause irreparable harm to the Okefenokee, the largest blackwater swamp in North America, which is home to ...

The Okefenokee Swamp is more than 400,000 acres of nature refuge, providing peace for animals and solace for people. “You just don’t find it nowhere else, so why would you want to endanger it?” ...

For months there’s been a hotly contested plan to mine on the border of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, which is now waiting on final approval. There is a meeting today as a Federal Agency in ...