FOLKSTON, Ga. — Between its size and preservation, there isn’t another place quite like it on earth. It’s located not much more than an hour drive from most of Jacksonville. And yet despite that ...

GEORGIA — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff announced he was backing a proposal to expand the Okefenokee Wildlife Regue in Georgia to protect the land, adding to the list of people contesting plans to mine the ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service said it could buy land from property owners near the nation’s largest blackwater swamp in Georgia. The Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday it will stretch the ...

The University of Georgia’s chapter of the Georgia Student Swamp Coalition (GSSC) is fighting to protect the Okefenokee swamp ...

The Suwanee Canal, the only remnant of a failed attempt to drain the Okefenokee in the late 19th century. Today, it’s the main entrance to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The Okefenokee Swamp ...

Gail Jane Whatley said she was just 10 years old when she visited Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp for the first time six decades ago. Taken by the swamp’s “beauty and otherworldly serenity,” Whatley said ...

A company pursuing permits to mine for titanium on the doorstep of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge says their project will bring badly needed, good-paying jobs to rural south Georgia. But some ...

J. D. Corbett knows the ghosts he left behind in the swamp are still out there. It’s been years now, but he feels them when he paddles through, drifting under the Spanish moss, between the knobby ...

Visitors canoe along the Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia near the Florida state line. Contributed by Joy Campbell To mine or not to mine—that is the Okefenokee question. You’d think that should be a ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It’s a more than 335,000 acres of untouched land and home to some of Georgia’s most threatened and endangered species. The Okefenokee Swamp stretches from the Florida-Georgia ...

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 ...