Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ATLANTA (WRBL) — U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff released a statement addressing the Okefenokee Swamp Land deal on Friday and discussed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A company that has spent years battling conservationists as it seeks a permit to mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp and its ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — 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 ...

About a year ago, opponents determined to stop an Alabama company from mining next to Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp were running out of options. Georgia environmental regulators released draft permits in ...

The Okefenokee Swamp is an enormous peat bog 38 miles long by 25 miles wide, created 7,000 years ago. Kenneth Fletcher When I first read about the Okefenokee Swamp as a 10-year-old boy, I immediately ...

FILE - The sun sets on the lily pads and floating vegetation in the Chesser Prairie inside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on March 30, 2022, in Folkston, Ga ...

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 ...

Before Richard Rhodes became an interpretive naturalist who searches for swamp critters, he made a living hunting them. As an invasive species hunter in South Florida, Rhodes honed his understanding ...

Environmental groups are seeking Georgia governor’s support for legislation that would bar mining near the Okefenokee Swamp, plus other conservation measures. “Bottom line: It’s time to end the ...

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 ...