A little over an hour into his first visit to the Okefenokee, after a boat ride through cypress trees draped with Spanish moss and a turn through a carpet of white swamp lilies floating on the dark water, all under the gaze of alligators along the edges, Turner Hunt said he was already impressed by the swamp.
“It’s a beautiful place,” he said. “It’s good to get here and get to experience this, see the plants, see the animals.”
Hunt, the preservation manager for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, was on a tour with officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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