The time is now. Time is running out in this Georgia General Assembly session for our elected officials to take action to protect the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from the continuing threat of ...

Kemp and Environmental Protection Division director Jeff Cown: The Okefenokee Swamp ... to take us into the swamp, where we paddled under towering ancient cypress trees, around lily pads and ...

Bednarek, executive director of Okefenokee Swamp Park and Adventures ... it was logged for 25 years. Old cypress, pine, and red bay trees were cut down. But as Bednarek noted as the boat headed ...

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 ...

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 1937, and provides ...