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

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

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

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

House Bill 562 would provide a five-year moratorium on new mining on Trail Ridge, and House Bill 561, the Okefenokee Protection Act, would prohibit future mining in the area. Neither bill would ...

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

House Bill 562 would provide a five-year moratorium on new mining on Trail Ridge, and House Bill 561, the Okefenokee Protection Act, would prohibit future mining in the area. Neither bill would stop ...

Lily pads float on the surface during a media tour Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023 at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Folkston, Ga. Kim Bednarek, Executive Director at the Okefenokee Swamp Park ...

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 ...

The swamp has been the subject of renewed conservation efforts after an Alabama-based company announced plans for a mine.

Members of the Georgia State House have once again introduced bills to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from mining threats. The Okefenokee was named a National Wildlife Refuge in 1937, and provides ...