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The forest is approximately 35,000 acres and is the largest state forest owned and managed by the Georgia Forestry Commission. The forest is mostly made up of pine plantations consisting of slash pine , longleaf pine , and loblolly pine as well as wetlands consisting of pondcypress , swamp blackgum , sweetbay magnolia , loblolly bay , and other ...
Named the Bugaboo Scrub Fire, by May 31, it had burned more than 600,000 acres (240,000 ha), or more than 935 square miles, and remains the largest wildfire in both Georgia and Florida history. [5] [6] In 2011, the Honey Prairie Fire consumed 309,200 acres (125,100 ha) of land in the swamp. [7]
A loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma. Okefenokee Swamp: 1974: Charlton, Clinch, Ware
The forest is actually two U.S. National Forests combined, the Oconee National Forest and Chattahoochee National Forest. The area of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest is 865,855 acres (3,504 km 2), of which the Chattahoochee National Forest comprises 750,502 acres (3,037 km 2) and the Oconee National Forest comprises 115,353 acres (467 ...
John Deem covers climate change and the environment in coastal Georgia. He can be reached at 912-652-0213. This article originally appeared on Savannah Morning News: Climate change helps mangroves ...
In 1911, the United States Forest Service purchased 31,000 acres (125 km 2) of land in Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and Union Counties from the Gennett family for $7 per acre. This land was the beginning of what would become the Chattahoochee National Forest. The initial land purchases became a part of the Cherokee National Forest on June 14, 1920.
The rapper opened up about returning to his 235-acre farm in Georgia to recharge. Rick Ross is in his farm […] The post Rick Ross finds joy on the farm he calls the ‘Promise Land’ appeared ...
By May 22 it had burned 475,000 acres (1,920 km 2) in Georgia and Florida. By the end of May 564,450 acres (2,300 km 2) had burned. The Florida Folk Festival, the nation's oldest continuous festival, was cancelled for the first time because of the fire. (It was later rescheduled for November.)