O·ke·fe·no·kee Swamp

(ō′kə-fə-nō′kē, -kē-)

A large swampy region of southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. The area includes cypress swamps, peat bogs, marshes, and wooded hummocks.

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Okefenokee Swamp

(ˌəʊkɪfɪˈnəʊkɪ)

(Placename) a swamp in the US, in SE Georgia and N Florida: protected flora and fauna. Area: 1554 sq km (600 sq miles)

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O′ke•fe•no′kee Swamp′

(ˈoʊ kə fəˈnoʊ ki, ˌoʊ ki-)
n.

a large wooded swamp area in SE Georgia. 660 sq. mi. (1709 sq. km).

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Okefenokee Swamp - a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia

Everglade State, FL, Florida, Sunshine State - a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

Empire State of the South, Georgia, Peach State, GA - a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

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Megan Kate Nelson, Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2005).

Parsing the Waters: The Trump administration's efforts to reform US wetlands policy are a century or more out of date. All the same, wetlands protection would benefit from a clearer policy foundation

Found from the vast Okefenokee Swamp to high alpine meadows, from hardwood canopies to the burning bottom of the Grand Canyon, these ultimate vertebrates are ecologically pivotal predators and quintessential survivors.

American Snakes

NFLT is leading a team of seven partners who are working together to preserve land along the nationally critical wildlife corridor that stretches from the Ocala National Forest to the Osceola National Forest and eventually to the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.

North Florida Land Trust's O2O Project Has Been Chosen for Federal Funding

A WILDFIRE near the Georgia-Florida state line has burned more than 90 square miles as winds spread the flames through dry areas of the Okefenokee Swamp.

Huge wildfire in States

One day, while boating through the Okefenokee Swamp, the shallow-bottomed craft I rode in pushed aside wrist-thick rhizomes of giant, white water lilies while yellow-bellied fish cavorted in our wake.

Medicinal herbs for difficult growing conditions: pick the medicinal plants that will thrive in shady, swampy, or dry environments

Harris's later stops include Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, South Carolina's Bulls Island, the Great Smoky Mountains, and the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Returning North with the Spring

This reviewer hasn't laughed so hard since the days of Walt Kelly and the characters of the Okefenokee swamp strip of Pogo and Albert.

The Battle of the Vegetables

The Suwannee River flows through Florida from the Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia, and empties into the Gulf about 90 miles north of Tampa Bay, just about in the middle of the Big Bend.

Suwannee sound

In each section, the regional geology of the area is described as one would see it traveling along interstates, US highways and state highways as well as in geologically-rich parks and other attractions such as Stone Mountain, Chickamauga, Okefenokee Swamp and others.

REVIEW OF "ROADSIDE GEOLOGY OF GEORGIA"

The centerpiece of the site is a home built of hand-hewn cypress logs from the Okefenokee Swamp. This structure alone is the realization of a dream for the homeowner, who says he has wanted a cabin in the woods since he was 15 years old.

Land of the bending bays: history and legend blend with nature's splendor at a rural Rankin County retreat

McCarthy, Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo targeted the Wisconsin Red-hunter with the addition of two new characters to Okefenokee Swamp, the setting of the popular strip: Simple J.

Possum's blinders: beyond Okefenokee, local option