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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 400,000 acres in size, the Okefenokee Swamp is an incredibly diverse and ... marker 18 where we see the little paddler icon on the map. - [Ken] Oh yeah. - And yeah, we left Mall Hammock ...

Some lawmakers and conservationists had portrayed SB 132 as the last, best hope to buy time for long-term solutions to protect the Okefenokee, the largest blackwater swamp in North America. But ...

After a tumultuous year of changing protections, legal challenges and public comments, the confrontation to protect or develop the edge of the Okefenokee Wildlife National Refuge is reaching a ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — 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 ...

The document appeals to legislators and state officials to “take every possible measure to ensure the long-term protection of the Okefenokee Swamp.” Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals ...