A Dire Threat to a National Wildlife Treasure
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge belongs to the planet. And we can still save it.
By Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She works for Humanities Tennessee, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as editor of Chapter 16, a daily web publication that documents the literary life of Tennessee. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Literary Hub, Shenandoah, The Southern Review and other publications. She lives in Nashville.
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