The battle was won, but the war continues. All those Gainesville Times readers who responded to Dick Yarbrough’s effort to save the Okefenokee Swamp from efforts by Twin Pines, a mining company in Alabama, are breathing again because that battle ended when the Conservation Fund paid $60 million for Twin Pines’ almost 8,000 mining acres including mineral rights.
Opinion: Okefenokee Swamp is saved for now, but needs more protection

