Hidden within Dawson Forest in North Georgia, abandoned gold mines remain sealed off from most of the public. Once part of ...

Deep beneath Findley Ridge lie gold mine shafts unlike anything typically found in Georgia. What began as a routine ...

A key part of the Okefenokee Swamp was rescued by conservationists from mining, but this natural habitat is still in danger, ...

After six years, a controversial bid to mine next door to Georgia’s famed Okefenokee Swamp is no more. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit specializing in acquiring at-risk lands, announced Friday it ...

Josh Howard has been coming to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp for 50 years, starting with his grandfather taking him there, then taking his own children. He knows just about every inch of the place. "We ...

A conservation group said Friday it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years battling over a proposed mine that ...