The first time I heard about the Okefenokee Swamp – a 438,000-acre, peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line – ...

The cycle of life is no more evident than inside the Okefenokee Swamp. Beautiful flora grows out of decay. Saplings spring out of dead trees. No plant stands alone. The Swamp showed me that ...

If the Okefenokee receives this designation ... through a canopy of today’s trees, the swamp not only remained, it recovered. The source of its water — precipitation — continues to fill ...

Georgia environmental regulators could decide any day now whether to clear an Alabama-based company to mine next door to Georgia’s famed Okefenokee Swamp. Now, a pair of bills that would prevent ...

Fifth-grade students at Mamie Lou Gross Elementary recently had an encounter with animals from the Okefenokee Swamp. Katie ...

Georgia lawmakers Monday heard arguments for and against a pair of bills that would keep mining from expanding near the Okefenokee Swamp.

FOLKSTON, Ga. — Members of the Georgia State House have once again introduced bills to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from mining threats. The Okefenokee was named a National Wildlife Refuge in ...

Two bills introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives aim to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from mining operations. One bill proposes a five-year moratorium on mining, while the other seeks a ...

A visitor to Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp recorded a rarely seen part of the alligator mating ritual called the head slap, researchers say. Jennifer Berglund video screengrab Male alligators ...

It's particularly popular during the fall because the many trees nearby transform into ... like the coastal barrier islands and the Okefenokee Swamp. What is there to do in Georgia's Lower Coastal ...