Okefenokee Swamp needs you
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[[link removed]]Dear John,

The Okefenokee Swamp, one of Georgia's seven natural wonders, the largest
blackwater swamp in North America, and a wetland of international importance, is
threatened by a proposed titanium mine.

This threat became more concerning with the federal government's recent rule
change to the Clean Water Act. This change allows Twin Pines Minerals, LLC, an
Alabama mining company with a poor track record of environmental stewardship, to
proceed with its 600-acre heavy mineral sand mine without any federal oversight.

Only the State of Georgia can ensure that the Okefenokee will not be harmed by
this and other mines that might follow.


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The proposed mine sits next to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in
Charlton County, GA. The company proposes digging 50-foot deep trenches in Trail
Ridge, the very rise of land that helps regulate water levels in the swamp.
These excavations would extend below the water table of the swamp and could
drastically alter critical water levels

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has written that, "should impacts occur, they
may not be able to be reversed, repaired or mitigated for."

At risk is one of the last self-contained, naturally functioning wetlands left
on Earth. Among the most visited National Wildlife Refuges in the country, the
Okefenokee hosts some 600,000 people annually who help create more than 750
local jobs and a total annual economic output of $64.7 million in the four
counties surrounding the swamp.

Please join us
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proposal and encourage him to request a study to determine how the Okefenokee
Swamp could be impacted by mining along Trail Ridge.

Thank you,




[[link removed]] Jessie Thomas-Blate
Director of River Restoration and Most Endangered Rivers Manager
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