Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Okefenokee Swamp is part of the Southeastern conifer forests ecoregion. Much of the Okefenokee is a southern coastal plain nonriverine basin swamp, forested by bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and swamp tupelo (Nyssa biflora) trees. Upland areas support southern coastal plain oak domes and hammocks, thick stands of evergreen oaks.
The swamp now lies 103 to 128 feet (39 m) above mean sea level. [7] Peat deposits, up to 15 feet (4.6 m) thick, cover much of the swamp floor. [7] These deposits are so unstable in spots that trees and surrounding bushes tremble by stomping the surface. [7] Native Americans named the area "Okefenokee" meaning "Land of the Trembling Earth". [7]
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.
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 ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge covers nearly 630 square miles (1,630 square kilometers) in southeast Georgia and is home to alligators, bald eagles and other protected species. The swamp ...
"Echo": In 1884, Albert S. Gatschet claimed that Suwannee derives from the Creek word sawani, meaning "echo", rejecting the earlier Shawnee theory. [5] Stephen Boyd's 1885 Indian Local Names with Their Interpretation [ 6 ] and Henry Gannett's 1905 work The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States repeat this interpretation , calling ...
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 .