FILE - The sun sets over water lilies and cypress trees along the remote Red Trail wilderness water trail of Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Fargo, Ga. (AP ...

Landscape in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. Set at the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is not only one of America’s ...

FOLKSTON — A federal plan to expand the boundaries of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge received a largely warm reception at a town hall meeting held Tuesday night on the edge of the swamp even ...

ATLANTA — The Okefenokee Swamp is considered one of the most unique ecosystems in the world, but it could be threatened by a mine that a company wants to build less than three miles from the wildlife ...

Twin Pines Minerals has not produced the $2 million bond or other collateral required to receive its permit to mine titanium near the Okefenokee Swamp, a delay that comes as the company and its ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A company that has spent years battling conservationists as it seeks a permit to mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge needs to do just one ...

The company seeking permits to mine minerals near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine to Georgia environmental regulators, who say the ...

CHARLTON COUNTY, Ga. — A swamp on the Georgia-Florida border has been named one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2023. Nonprofit organization American Rivers placed the Okefenokee Swamp at No.

In my new CFACT Conservation Country report, I investigated this December 2024 Biden-Harris administration policy. Currently, 92 percent of Okefenokee Swamp- or 407,000 acres - is a federally-managed ...

To David Walter Banks, there’s something special about the Okefenokee Swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in North America. There’s a mystical quality, the photographer says, that’s hard to explain to ...

Set at the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is not only one of America’s most important ecosystems, but it's also the largest blackwater ...