U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a proposal that would expand the boundary of the Okefenokee National Wildlife ...

In 2011, a fire that started in the swamp burned throughout ... they will receive their final permits to mine near the ...

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 ...

Visitors canoe along the Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia near the Florida state line. Contributed by Joy Campbell To mine or not to mine—that is the Okefenokee question. You’d think that ...

Northwest Georgia resident Joe Cook just got back from a breathtaking paddle in the Okefenokee. The blackwater swamp is teeming with life. From insects to carnivorous plants and from alligators and ...

ATLANTA – A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to expand the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge – including land near the swamp being eyed by a mining company – received strong support ...

Inscribed on a wooden bench in the Okefenokee swamp are the words “The earth ... In 2017, the 152,515-acre West Mims Fire ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed expanding the Okefenokee National Wildlife ... project and the continent’s largest black water swamp. Most dramatically, the Fish and Wildlife Service ...

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 ...

In last week’s column, we started unpeeling the layers of life that makes up the Okefenokee Swamp, its land, animals and the ...

The agency said its expansion plan would “strengthen protection of the hydrological integrity of the swamp” and protect its rare and endangered wildlife. The Okefenokee is the largest ...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to expand the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge – including land near the swamp being eyed by a mining company – received strong support this week.