Location

Southeastern Georgia

Covers approximately

700 square miles

Covers parts of

Brantly, Camden,

Clinch, Pierce, and

Ware Counties

Characteristics

Evidence suggests that the Okefenokee once

was home to thousands of Native Americans

and an advanced indigenous culture

Contains at least 74 Indian mounds

Nicknamed “The Land of the Trembling Earth”

Hitchiti a language spoken by Creek Indians

Okefenokee means “water-shaking”

Swamp Plants

Pitcher Plant Cypress Trees

Bladderwort Sun Dew

Swamp Wildlife

Alligators

Sandhill CraneAnhinga

Otters Black Bears White- Tailed Deer Water Moccasin

Threats

10-week-old blaze that has burned well over half the 400,000-acre preserve.

Wildfires

Drought

Apple snails

References

http://www.okeswamp.com/animals.htm

http://www.valdosta.edu/~tmanning/hon

399/scott.htm

http://www.okefenokee.com/info/info/

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-02/us/g

eorgia.swamp.fire_1_swamp-okefenokee

-national-wildlife-refuge-dry-conditions?

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s=PM:US

http://

www.sptimes.com/2005/09/18/Worldand

nation/Alien_snails_threaten.shtml