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 private ...

The Okefenokee refuge covers nearly 630 square miles (1,630 square kilometers) in southeast Georgia ... The swamp’s wildlife, cypress forests and flooded prairies draw roughly 400,000 visitors ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Okefenokee refuge covers nearly 630 square miles (1,630 square kilometers) in southeast Georgia ... The swamp’s wildlife, cypress forests and flooded prairies draw roughly 400,000 visitors ...