The Interior Department plans to nominate Georgia’s Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to become a United Nations world heritage site, the latest twist in a years-long Clean Water Act fight over the swamp and a mine planned nearby.
The National Park Service is requesting that staff at the refuge, which protects North America’s largest blackwater swamp, draft a nomination for the swamp to be added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, according to a Federal Register public inspection notice Friday. The list recognizes sites of great cultural and natural significance.
NPS said the ...
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