By David Pendered July 28 – The Muscogee (Creek) Nation in the Okefenokee Swamp included “incomparably beautiful women” and “fierce men,” according to an account of the swamp published in 1791 by William Bartram, a Quaker natural scientist. Some 235 years after the book’s publication, UNESCO on July 25 added the swamp to the World […]
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Ga River Network recognizes 25 years, battle over Okefenokee SwampBy David Pendered July 23 — The Georgia River Network is putting the weight of its 25th anniversary fundraising gala behind the effort protect land near the Okefenokee Swamp from construction of a proposed strip mine. The GRN is an Athens-based, clean-water nonprofit that has kept a laser focus on opposing the proposed extraction of […]
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Okefenokee: Just say ‘No mine’By David Pendered Sept. 15 – The Georgia Water Coalition is trying to insert the proposed mine near the Okefenokee Swamp into the November gubernatorial campaign via a letter-writing campaign based on a survey released Thursday that shows a solid majority of Georgians oppose the mine. The coalition has launched an online campaign targeting the gubernatorial candidates, […]
