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 ...

Conservationists are celebrating a win in southern Georgia. On June 20, The Conservation Fund (TCF) announced that it had ...

For centuries, the Okefenokee Swamp has been a haven for people, animals, and plants. ... giant cypress trees cloaked in Spanish moss, and peat islands floating among alligators and lily pads.

The Brief. A plan to mine near the border of Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp has been stopped after years of battles with conservationists. Alabama's Twin Pines had worked since 2019 to obtain permits ...

America’s Largest Blackwater Swamp Is Home to an Estimated 15,000 Alligators—and It May Be the Next UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here's what to know about Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp before ...

Georgia Rivers will host the Georgia Rivers Gala at the Ivan Allen Family Meadow in Atlanta on September 18 to celebrate ...

A hotly debated mining project near the federally protected Okefenokee Swamp has stalled over a $2 million permit requirement needed before Georgia regulators make a final decision.

Back in the 1990s, he leased 23,000 acres of his land along the swamp’s edge to DuPont Chemical for a massive strip mine. When I and others successfully fought that project and DuPont abandoned ...

T he Okefenokee Swamp is often described as a place like no other on Earth, and as someone who came from halfway across the world, I found myself instantly drawn to its charm. When I first visited ...

Okefenokee is the largest black water swamp in North America and clocks in at 407,000 acres of refuge space with 115,500 surrounding the refuge called acquisition boundary.

ATLANTA - The Alabama-based company planning to open a titanium mine adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp has not submitted $2.1 million in financial assurances required to get a permit from ...

A plan to mine near the border of Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp has been stopped after years of battles with conservationists. Alabama's Twin Pines had worked since 2019 to obtain permits to mine ...