We’re in a Gator Hole!

An exciting excerpt from Louis Pendleton’s 1895 book, In the Okefenokee… Accordingly, as soon as they were opposite another island, Joe…

Uncanny Notes of the Barred Owl

Excerpt from Francis Harper’s Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp, published March 1927: “The denser cypress bays are places of deep shade…

A description of the American Alligator from an 1829 publication describing the wild animals in the zoos of London… “The…

In the early years of our nation, the Okefenokee Swamp was thought to be an uninhabitable wilderness never to be…

Excerpt from E.A. McIlhenny’s 1935 book, The Alligator’s Life History: “How quick an alligator can snap its jaws, was proven to…

Every time I dip my oars into the blackwaters of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, I am overwhelmed: overwhelmed by…

Excerpt from Francis Harper’s Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp, published March 1927: The prairies contribute more than any other feature to…

A description of the American Alligator from an 1829 publication describing the wild animals in the zoos of London… “Alligators…

All along its back – from neck to tail – the American Alligator is armored with bony scales called osteoderms.…

The swamplands and marshes of Georgia and Florida are similar in appearance: vast, wide, flat, void of defined travelways, and…