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 thing before ...

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 ...

A company pursuing permits to mine for titanium on the doorstep of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge says their project will bring badly needed, good-paying jobs to rural south Georgia. But some ...

CHARLTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, announced Friday it has purchased the proposed site of a deep earth mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, effectively ...

A 582-acre titanium and zirconium “demonstration mine” is would be in the yellow area less than 3 miles from the refuge. St. George, GA – A mineral mining company is moving ahead on a proposal to dig ...

The Suwanee Canal, the only remnant of a failed attempt to drain the Okefenokee in the late 19th century. Today, it’s the main entrance to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The Okefenokee Swamp ...

CHARLTON COUNTY, Ga. — A swamp on the Georgia-Florida border has been named one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2023. Nonprofit organization American Rivers placed the Okefenokee Swamp at No.

Landscape in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. Set at the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is not only one of America’s ...

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A company pursuing permits to mine for titanium on the doorstep of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge says their project will bring badly needed, good-paying jobs to rural south Georgia. But some ...