Year Established: 1937 Located: Georgia Size: over 402,000 acres Top Features: The Okefenokee Swamp Stop by the Visitor ... Bolt Visitor Center is where you can grab maps and junior ranger booklets.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The boundaries of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge will be expanded, following a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The refuge contains the Okefenokee ...

Mining tens of thousands of acres on the Toledo Manufacturing property, which lies at a lower elevation and closer to the swamp than ... water from the Okefenokee, Georgia’s grandest public ...

Kudos to Dick Yarbrough for his outstanding editorial about the Okefenokee ... Swamp and the dangerous threat posed to it by mining. Several of his points bear repeating. First, he indicates that ...

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 ...

The Okefenokee refuge covers nearly 630 square miles (1,630 square kilometers) in southeast Georgia and is home to more than 400 animal species, including alligators and bald eagles. The swamp’s ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency said Friday that it has approved a plan to expand the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge, setting up a potential buyout offer for land intended for a ...

Today’s lawsuit, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, notes that the Corps’ action opens wetlands that are critical to the health of the iconic Okefenokee Swamp to destruction by a ...