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After years of trying, environmentalists neutralize a mining threat near Okefenokee
The Conservation Fund ensures Okefenokee refuge will remain wild by purchasing nearly 8,000 acre property near swamp.
Courthouse News Service5d
Land deal saves Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp from mining project
The Conservation Fund's purchase halted a widely opposed titanium mining proposal near the largest blackwater swamp in North ...
Mining project near the Okefenokee Swamp halted after nonprofit purchases the site
The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, announced Friday it has purchased the proposed site of a deep earth mine near ...
Savannah Morning News2d
Six-year effort to protect Okefenokee ends in win for swamp, wildlife
The Conservation Fund announced Friday that it had agreed to buy Twin Pines Minerals’ property on Trail Ridge near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, ending a six-year effort to protect ...
Okefenokee mining site purchased for $60M. Land buyers credit public advocacy
The largest black water swamp in North America has been on the minds of conservation groups for six years. How the land deal ...
Florida Phoenix3d
Land deal stops mining project near Okefenokee Swamp, though advocates brace for future threats
An Alabama company that was close to receiving the final go-ahead from the state of Georgia to mine near the Okefenokee ...
Okefenokee Swamp mining site sold to Conservation Fund, ending project
The Conservation Fund confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that the land as purchased for just under $60 million.
Coastal Courier3h
Purchase of mining company’s land hailed as preventing Okefenokee threat
The Alabama company that planned to mine titanium dioxide next to the Okefenokee Swamp has agreed to sell its property to an ...
WOKV5d
Mining project near the Okefenokee Swamp halted after nonprofit purchases the site
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 ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution5d
Historic land deal halts mining project next to Okefenokee Swamp
The move puts an immediate halt to a project that scientists and environmentalists had feared could irreparably damage North America’s largest blackwater swamp.