What is the difference between the Okefenokee Swamp and the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge?
Basically they are the same. The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (refuge) was created in 1937 to forever protect the Okefenokee Swamp and its surrounding uplands. The refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, now contains about 85 percent of the swamp plus tens of thousands of acres of upland pine forest vital for wildlife such as the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker and the threatened gopher tortoise.
