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Okefenokee Wilderness is a 353,981 acre (1,432.5 km 2) U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Georgia in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1974 when 343,850 acres (1,391.5 km 2 ) were designated as wilderness by Public Law 93-429 .
Approximately 371,000 acres (1,500 km 2) of the Okefenokee Swamp wetlands are incorporated into the refuge. 353,981 acres (1,432 km 2) within the swamp were designated as the Okefenokee Wilderness, a part of the National Wilderness Preservation System when the Okefenokee Wilderness Act was passed in 1974, making it the third largest wilderness ...
The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States. A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness.
The Okefenokee Swamp is the most extensive blackwater swamp in North America and covers over 438,000 acres. The Okefenokee Swamp Park is headquarters for its founding and administrative body, the Okefenokee Association, Inc., which was granted a sublease to Land Lot 20 in the Dixon Memorial Forest from the U.S. Department of Interior in 1945.
If the Okefenokee receives a UNESCO World Heritage Site protection status, it will very likely save the environment and help local jobs.
A U.S. agency said Friday it will nominate the vast, federally protected wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp for listing as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The National Park Service filed a ...
Map of Georgia. The protected areas of Georgia cover almost one million acres (4,000 km 2) of the state. These areas are managed by different federal and state level authorities and receive varying levels of protection. Some areas are managed as wilderness while others are operated with acceptable commercial exploitation.
Conservationist and developer Doug Davis walks near olive trees during a tour of The Farm at Okefenokee in Folkston, Ga. The 705-acre property is being developed into an “agrihood” adjacent to ...