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 ...

Grab a map from the visitor center before you go ... The biggest reason to come to the Okefenokee Swamp is the abundant wildlife. You are almost guaranteed to see an alligator or two as the ...

Easily visible on a topographical map, Trail Ridge is a narrow ... Babbitt said in April 1997, “while the Okefenokee is a very uncommon swamp.” Caught in a public relations nightmare, DuPont ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The Okefenokee Swamp is one of the world’s largest blackwater wetlands. Each experience is truly unique, based on the weather, time of year and water levels.

Last fall, in a moving essay for The Bitter Southerner, the writer Janisse Ray called the Okefenokee “a gigantic, ethereal, god-touched swamp in southeast Georgia that’s like no other place on ...

A Georgia man's encounter with a mass gathering of alligators in the Okefenokee Swamp that was captured on video has prompted researchers to investigate why so many of them congregated in a ...

Click here for the full story. Part 5: The question looms: What’s next for the Okefenokee Swamp? The next few years could mean big changes in south Georgia. The Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge could ...

The Okefenokee Swamp is considered one of the last remaining large, intact freshwater ecosystems in the world. As such, it's been nominated as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. By Woolwerth Imagery / ...

(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 ...

Sonny Perdue added his voice to a list of supporters working to preserve the Okefenokee Swamp. On April 17, Perdue sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Sec. Doug Burgum urging him ...

which makes up roughly 92% of the Okefenokee Swamp, for consideration to be on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is made up of more ...