Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

(Newser) - A vast swamp in southeast Georgia may soon join the ranks of the Grand Canyon and Statue of Liberty, if former Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue gets his way. The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is now at the center of a bipartisan push for World Heritage status, the AP reports....

(Newser) - A Georgia man set out this month expecting a normal day of fishing. Instead, he encountered hundreds of writhing alligators in a canal in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in what biologists believe may be a strange feeding ritual. Ray Cason witnessed the gator gathering, which wildlife officials term a...