OKEFENOKEE, THE MAGICAL SWAMP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000400490001-0
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: OPEN

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THERE 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 wits 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 refu e to wildlife and serenity to man.
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