Set at the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is not only one of ...

the idea that maroons also existed in North America has been rejected by most historians. “In 2004, when I started talking about large, permanent maroon settlements in the Great Dismal Swamp ...

Through this loss, we glimpse one of America’s most important strategic resources in Europe: friends who will dive into a swamp beside us to find our soldiers and bring them home. Nothing can ...

In the Atchafalaya Basin—the largest river swamp in the U.S.—ancient cypress ... This is the largest block of coastal cypress forests in North America. These cypress trees are incredibly ...

These maroons (or outlyers, as they were often called in North America) set up small communities ... was mostly limited to the Great Dismal Swamp, on the Virginia and North Carolina border.

A 2.25-mile boardwalk curves through the sanctuary's pine flatwood, wet prairie, around a marsh, and finally into the largest old-growth bald cypress forest in North America; visitors can take a ...

Landscape in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia.