Fig. 1
Canal Diggers Trail in Okefenokee Swamp
Landform
The great blackwater swamp of the Southeast: cypress, wet prairies, alligators, and dark mirror water.
Field note
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, about 400,000 acres of blackwater swamp on the Georgia–Florida line. Cypress, shrub, and wet prairie sit on peat. Alligators are common. Canoe trails leave from Stephen C. Foster and other landings. The Everglades plate is the sawgrass to the south, a different wetland.
