Flowing through sparsely settled country in Southwest Georgia, Ichawaynochaway Creek is small in size, but since 1997, it has played an outsized role in shaping Georgia’s boating laws. Between 1992 and 1997, a pitched battle was fought to keep the locally beloved Baker County creek open to the public. It pitted a lone local sportsman […]
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Titanium – A fantastic mineral the U.S. doesn’t need from near Okefenokee Swamp
By Guest Columnist JOE COOK, Georgia River Network guidebook author and freelance journalist
Titanium. When a German scientist isolated the element in 1795, he named it to honor the fanciful tales of the Titans, the giants that once ruled the Earth in Greek mythology.
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National defense does not need titanium from Okefenokee Swamp, industry says
By Joe Cook
Special to SaportaReport.com
Unincorporated St. George, Georgia is but a dot on the state road map in the state’s far southeast panhandle – that thumb of land formed by the St. Marys River that pokes into north Florida.
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Earth Day 2021: Hope springs eternal, even with threat to Okefenokee Swamp,
By GUEST COLUMNIST JOE COOK, Paddle Georgia coordinator and guidebook series author
In the spring of 1970, Georgia’s then comptroller general and Republican gubernatorial hopeful, Jimmy Bentley, dispatched 65 telegrams to state and national leaders – including President Richard Nixon – all in an attempt to have the date of the country’s first Earth Day celebration changed.
