CHARLTON COUNTY, Ga. — You may have heard about the Okefenokee swamp in the news lately.
A company called Twin Pines wants to start mining on the edge of the swamp down on the Georgia-Florida border.
The wildlife refuge made news a few years back when it caught fire.
Today you can visit the swamp by going to Stephen C. Foster State Park, it’s one of the state’s wildest places in the southeast.
Mickey Garner takes in all the wildlife when he spends half a year as a camp host at Stephen C. Foster state park, which is located in the Okefenokee Swamp.
“We see deer turkeys, gators, and sometimes, a bear,” he said.
John Mark Shelnutt is a ranger at the park, but think of him as a preacher shouting out the beauty of the Okefenokee from his black watery pulpit.
“Everything fits in together and everything has its place and everything eats everything, but it all works out,” he said with a smile. “It’s …