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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 ...
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.
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The Great Dismal Swamp could be the centerpiece of a new national Heritage Area - MSN
The proposed Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area is in the middle of a three-year feasibility study process. That includes a public comment period, which is open now until May 19th.
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge expansion gains final approval - MSN
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will move forward with a plan to expand the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge the swamp’s supporters hope will help sink a proposed titanium mine, the ...
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Native America Calling: The Tulsa Race Massacre and a ‘dismal’ swamp
A reparations package seeks to compensate Black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a violent, racist attack on their community ...
Mining project near the Okefenokee Swamp has stalled over a $2M permit requirement
A hotly debated mining project near the federally protected Okefenokee Swamp has stalled over a $2 million permit requirement ...
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Mining threat near Okefenokee ends
The Alabama company that planned to mine titanium dioxide next to the Okefenokee Swamp has agreed to sell its property to an ...
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Fixing the forests, one tree at a time
Mendham Township is covered with trees. Between Lewis Morris Park, the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and Tempe Wick ...
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.