Excerpt from Francis Harper’s Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp, published March 1927: The prairies contribute more than any other feature to…
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Like Logs of Wood
A description of the American Alligator from an 1829 publication describing the wild animals in the zoos of London… “Alligators…
Alligator Osteoderm Armor
All along its back – from neck to tail – the American Alligator is armored with bony scales called osteoderms.…
Vigorous Prairie Sawgrass
The swamplands and marshes of Georgia and Florida are similar in appearance: vast, wide, flat, void of defined travelways, and…
What’s Behind the Glass?
Dark tannic waters reflect the upper world perfectly. The mirror-like blackwater displays inverted Cypress Tree buttresses and their mossy-green knees…
Long Time Mythical Land
In 1875, The Atlanta Constitution funded and documented an exploration of the Okefenokee Swamp. Over the next months, newspapers across the nation…
Clean and Pristine Okefenokee
One thing that is pleasantly noticeable in the clean and pristine wilderness of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is the…
Okefenokee Getaway
The Okefenokee Swamp teaches us a something about our lives on this planet. It lets us know how dependent we…
Ahead was a Dark Dense Swamp
Excerpt from the 1875 Okefenokee Exploration by The Atlanta Constitution: September 19, 1875. — “Ahead of us was a dark and dense…
Okefenokee Swamp: A Great Rain Basin
Which slow-moving, murky, southern river is it that feeds the Okefenokee Swamp? How many creeks and spring must there be…
Okefenokee Photography Project by William Wise 