Okefenokee Swamp Featured on New Postage Stamp
The most recent addition to the Scenic American Landscapes postage stamp series featuring Okefenokee Swamp was unveiled today by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Randall Luthi at the NAPEX 2007 stamp exhibition underway in Northern Virginia.
This stamp depicts the still water, cypress trees and yellow cow-lilies of the Okefenokee Swamp, which occupies 438,000 acres -- approximately 650 square miles -- in southeastern Georgia and northeast Florida. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protects 402,000 acres of this swamp as the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge -- established in 1937 to preserve the swamp and protect its wildlife and wildlife habitat. The photograph on the stamp was taken by Jos

