© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. Atlanta Journal-Constitution environment reporter Drew Kann said the Okefenokee Swamp is “truly one ...
A recently announced land deal presents a second time a mining proposal near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was thwarted due to public outcry. (Joe Cook/Georgia Rivers) Environmentalists are ...
Josh Howard has been coming to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp for 50 years, starting with his grandfather taking him there, then taking his own children. He knows just about every inch of the place. "We ...
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 ...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Georgia’s tourism industry continues to boom, setting records for the third year in a row.
On June 20, it was announced Twin Pines Minerals had finally agreed to give up its dangerous mining plan along the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. This incredible news came after six years of dogged ...
A plan to mine near the border of Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp has been stopped after years of battles with conservationists. Alabama's Twin Pines had worked since 2019 to obtain permits to mine ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. — 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 ...