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The Okefenokee Swamp is the most extensive blackwater swamp in North America and covers over 438,000 acres. The Okefenokee Swamp Park is headquarters for its founding and administrative body, the Okefenokee Association, Inc., which was granted a sublease to Land Lot 20 in the Dixon Memorial Forest from the U.S. Department of Interior in 1945.
In 2003, DuPont donated the 16,000 acres (6,500 ha) it had purchased for mining to The Conservation Fund, and in 2005, nearly 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) of the donated land was transferred to Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. [8] In 2018, Twin Pines Minerals LLC proposed another titanium mining operation near the Okefenokee Swamp.
Approximately 371,000 acres (1,500 km 2) of the Okefenokee Swamp wetlands are incorporated into the refuge. 353,981 acres (1,432 km 2) within the swamp were designated as the Okefenokee Wilderness, a part of the National Wilderness Preservation System when the Okefenokee Wilderness Act was passed in 1974, making it the third largest wilderness ...
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in south Georgia may expand its boundary by 22,000 acres. Public input on it has been extended to Dec. 9. Will the Okefenokee Swamp get bigger?
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 released draft permits for ...
Neighbors of Okefenokee swamp. Meyer and Davis say the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, a short bike or golf-cart ride away, will be a major amenity for residents, with trails, woods and the ...
Okefenokee Wilderness is a 353,981 acre (1,432.5 km 2) U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Georgia in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1974 when 343,850 acres (1,391.5 km 2 ) were designated as wilderness by Public Law 93-429 .
The company seeking permits to mine minerals near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine to Georgia environmental regulators, who say the ...