On a blast furnace of an August day in Georgia's southernmost county, Joe Hopkins gripped the steering wheel to steady his truck on the sandy road. Outside, seemingly endless rows of neatly spaced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FOLKSTON, Ga. — Between its size and preservation, there isn’t another place quite like it on earth. It’s located not much more ...

The Peach State offers incredible paddling, but none as unique as the Okefenokee Swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in America. OKEFENOKEE SWAMP, GEORGIA: Covering approximately 680 square miles of ...

The Okefenokee Swamp in far southern Georgia is considered one of the most captivating wilderness areas left in the South but people who treasure the 400,000-acre swamp said its future is uncertain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A company that has spent years battling conservationists as it seeks a permit to mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp and its ...

A contentious, years-long fight over a proposed mine next to one of the South’s last truly wild places ended abruptly Friday, when a nonprofit group announced it would spend nearly $60 million to ...

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 ...

The Okefenokee Swamp is an enormous peat bog 38 miles long by 25 miles wide, created 7,000 years ago. Kenneth Fletcher When I first read about the Okefenokee Swamp as a 10-year-old boy, I immediately ...

FOLKSTON, Ga. — Charlene Carter’s family has spent generations in and around the Okefenokee Swamp. Its tannin-stained waters are practically part of her blood; its hundreds of bird species her eternal ...

FOLKSTON—As the sun peaked through trees draped in Spanish moss on a March afternoon, Michael Lusk steered a boat into the Okefenokee Swamp wilderness. Across a flooded prairie, great egrets searched ...

SAVANNAH, Ga.SAVANNAH, Ga. — A company’s plan to mine minerals near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge neared final approval Friday as Georgia regulators ...