Saving the Okefenokee Swamp

Again, federal and state officials must step up and protect the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia.

by Newt Gingrich & Jackie Gingrich Cushman

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to visit the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia, you know that it is a unique and irreplaceable treasure.

In the 1970s, Newt Gingrich was teaching environmental studies at what was then West Georgia College in Carrollton (now the University of West Georgia) and take his stude…