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CIA-RDP96-00792R000400490001-0
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Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400490001-0 82 20' 1 OKEFENOKEE To Waycross Okefenokee Swamp SWAMP PASKOMT `11 miles shown in green- "Sapling Prairie" 301 Wildlife refuge boundary - Bird Leke E il Red Trail Pond (canoe) Mattox GEORGIA Big Water Lake-9 OKEFENOKEE --- 23 R STEPHEN C. FOSTER Folkston STATE PARKS NATIONAL Billys - Suwannee my Island Canal WILDLIFE 1 Fargo REFUGE TR GEORGIA FLORIDA nee 94) St. Marys GEORGIA River FLORIDA 1 0 10 St. Marys River St. George STATUTE MILES Okefenokee, the Magical Swamp T HERE IS SOMETHING wonderfully elemental, marvelously primeval about bog, marsh, or swamp. The waters, the muck, the rushes and cattails fairly teem with life from the lowest forms on up the scale of evolution. Indeed it was in swamps, was it not, that life first emerged from the sea to colonize the land? And thus it was with an atavistic feeling of coming home that I stepped into Clay Purvis's ca- noe at the northern entrance to Okefenokee Swamp on a cold, clear December morning. Clay, a quick-moving, slightly built nat- uralist-guide for Okefenokee Swamp Park, has spent a good part of his 22 years ex- ploring the inner recesses of Okefenokee. Like a vast saucer of tea, Okefenokee spills its dark waters across 680 square miles of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Here Spanish moss-draped cypress, open-marsh "prairies," and piny islands offer refuge to wildlife and serenity to man. ... 00/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400490001-0 169 - Suwar -Dinner G