The landmark deal ends a years-long fight over a proposed mine next to one of the South’s last truly wild places.

The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, announced Friday it has purchased the proposed site of a deep earth mine near ...

The Conservation Fund confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that the land as purchased for just under $60 million.

An Alabama company's plan to mine near the border of one of Georgia's natural wonders has been stopped after years of fights ...

An Alabama-based company that was close to receiving the final go-ahead from the state to mine near the Okefenokee National ...

A hotly debated mining project near the federally protected Okefenokee Swamp has stalled over a $2 million permit requirement ...

The Conservation Fund has purchased the land of a proposed mine site, called Trail Ridge, near the border of the Okefenokee ...

The hotly debated project is near the federally protected Okefenokee Swamp. SAVANNAH ... an attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center. “It's sort of an alarm bell that they probably ...

Swamp People’s Bruce Mitchell shares exciting news. His family is growing again as daughter Janice Marie prepares to welcome ...

With the popularity of alligator hunting TV shows and folks posing with goliath gators on social media, a growing number of hunters from all around the country want to travel to a southern swamp ...

The South is teeming with wildlife on land, sea and swamp. To observe ponies, gators, elk and dolphin in their natural habitats, here are a handful of scenic destinations and guided tours ripe for ...

There are few sites in nature that rival a flock of spoonbills flying over a southern swamp or marsh in the half light of dawn,” he says. Watts is the Director of the College William and Mary ...