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Opinion: Okefenokee Swamp is saved for now, but needs more protection
Okefenokee Swamp
An alligator resting on a log among Spanish moss covered old Cyprus trees on Okefenokee swamp. Photo by Alla Kemelmakher on Unsplash
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.