FOLKSTON — As the sun peaked through trees draped in Spanish moss on a March afternoon, Michael Lusk steered a boat into the Okefenokee Swamp wilderness. Across a flooded prairie, great egrets ...

How a defunct Trump policy still threatens Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp The short-lived rule is helping the mining industry from beyond the grave ...

FOLKSTON—As the sun peaked through trees draped in Spanish moss on a March afternoon, Michael Lusk steered a boat into the Okefenokee Swamp wilderness. Across a flooded prairie, great egrets ...

The 402,000-acre Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, occupies most of the Okefenokee Swamp’s total acreage in southeast Georgia. It is filled with ...

Will mining threaten the Okefenokee? An Alabama company is trying to build a mineral mine just outside one of Georgia’s most majestic natural spaces, the Okefenokee Swamp.

About 80 percent of the swamp is included in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, an antediluvian place teeming with life spun from the ooze, moss, and slime.

Eventually, the Okefenokee's significance as North America's largest swamp - and one of the world's largest intact freshwater ecosystems - led to its preservation.

After the swamp was nearly wiped out, it took years of conservation to start the rebuilding of the Okefenokee, and the ecosystem is currently the healthiest it's been in decades.

How a defunct Trump policy still threatens Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp The short-lived rule is helping the mining industry from beyond the grave.

People have 30 days to send comments to the Georgia EPD to voice their concerns about the company’s titanium mining operation at Trail Ridge, near Okefenokee Swamp.

The Conservation Fund's purchase halted a widely opposed titanium mining proposal near the largest blackwater swamp in North America.

THE OKEFENOKEE, IT IS THE SWAMP, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES TRAIL RIDGE. TRAIL RIDGE IS PART OF THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ITSELF. IT'S ALL CONNECTED.