 Okefenokee
Swamp ParkWaycross, GA |
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Made famous by the "Pogo" cartoons of Walt Kelly, Okefenokee Swamp covers 700 square miles of southeastern Georgia and is the biggest and most ecologically stable area of its kind in the country. It is home to a variety of plant and animal life and is protected as a National Wildlife Refuge. Opened in 1946, the Okefenokee Swamp Park is a nonprofit development created to allow the public to enjoy the previously impenetrable swamp lands. Its 1,200-acre area was subleased by the state of Georgia and developed with community donations, after some preliminary work by the Soil Conservation Service. It is aging, but tries hard to provide a glimpse of nature that can't be found many other places. |
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) ) "The
boat ride tour was very interesting. It had some cool cypress trees with
'knees' and alligators all around us. There was a sign that said 'EKAL RORRIM'
upside-down, but when we looking into the lake, the reflection said 'MIRROR
LAKE'. Our guide was very fun."--Harrison |
) COLOR
ME!
Click on this image of American Alligators
for the full size picture, then print and color it!
From the Dover coloring book Swampland Plants and Animals by Ruth Soffer |
) ) People
have always lived in the swamp. The Seminole Indians built housed on stilts
called chickees and farmed the area. Early white settlers made a living
by collecting pine tar and turning it into turpentine by boiling it and
condensing the vapors. |
Man
in the Everglades: 2000 Years of Human History by Charlton W. Tebeau |
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Okefenokee
is an old Seminole word meaning "Land of the Trembling Earth."
This refers to the floating vegetation islands of peat that have formed
over the centuries.
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