Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp—one of the largest intact freshwater wetlands in North America—supports extraordinary biodiversity, including over 200 bird species, unusual amphibians like the greater ...

"It's a little bit of nature in my urban backyard." According to the Golden Gate Bird Alliance, a family of four Great Horned Owls, two adults and two juveniles roughly three to four months old ...

None are titled, but each is recognizable its own way. A piece Evans simply refers to as "the swamp bird" could easily be interpreted as a great blue heron or egret. The inspiration for this ...

For more than 15 months, Georgia regulators have been pondering the issuance of a permit to mine near the Okefenokee Swamp. Environmentalists who have fought against the permit, saying mining will ...

Twin Pines Minerals, a mining company, has been waiting for over a year to receive a permit to mine near the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. The company has shown signs of financial stress, including ...

(AP) — President Donald Trump’s former agriculture secretary is urging the administration to support adding a vast, federally protected wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp to a list of ...

A 0.8-mile interpretive loop trail winds through what remains of a petrified swamp forest that would have been reminiscent of the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia in terms of grandeur. The ...

President Joe Biden called to express his condolences. Kennedy Sanders, in her hometown of 14,000 residents at the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, had been a standout soccer, softball and basketball ...

The city of Savannah and Chatham County are taking similar steps this week. Both are considering ordinance amendments to regulate the use of public spaces, specifically when it comes to people ...

Freedom. A strong seven-letter word that usually evokes emotion in the hearts and minds of Americans. They have been risking their lives for it and dying for it ever since the landing at Plymouth ...