The Okefenokee was named a National Wildlife Refuge in 1937, and provides habitat for many threatened and endangered species, such as red-cockaded woodpeckers, wood storks, and indigo snakes.

Two bills proposed to protect the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from mining did not advance through the House Friday.

Supporters of ban on mining in the Okefenokee say the largest blackwater wetland in North America needs protection, opponents ...

Don’t get your hopes up, but a couple of bills have surfaced in the Legislature addressing the Georgia Environmental ...

Legislators heard arguments for new and renewed bills over whether to allow mining near the Okefenokee National Wildlife ...

Lawmakers in Georgia House again take up legislation intended to protect the Okefenokee from future strip mining efforts ...

Don’t get your hopes up, but a couple of bills have surfaced in the Legislature addressing the Georgia Environmental ...

Two bills that would go toward protection of the Okefenokee Swamp and its national wildlife refuge remain in a General ...

Two House bills, HB 561 and HB 562, are being considered by a state House subcommittee to protect the Okefenokee National ...

Special to the WJH ATLANTA – Supporters of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge are taking another crack at protecting the ...

giving approval for Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals to mine a 584-acre tract of Trail Ridge on the eastern flank of our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium oxide so that we never ...