The Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia provides isolated, mysterious canoeing that harkens back to ancient times. GREAT DISMAL SWAMP, VIRGINIA: Seen from the air during the summer, the Great ...

With poor initial funding, shoddy engineering and enslaved laborers forced to work in awful conditions, the man-made ...

The Great Dismal Swamp is home to the ancestral lands of the Nansemond Indian Nation and the historic lands of the Haliwa-Saponi and Meherrin Tribes. The area is also home to the largest known ...

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SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) - A wildfire in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge has crossed from Virginia into North Carolina. Refuge officials say lightning started the fire, which was reported Aug ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A coal train has derailed in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia, raising concerns about its wildlife and the fragile peat soil that has accumulated ...

SUFFOLK, Va. -- A wildfire that burned thousands of acres in southeastern Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp over more than three months has been extinguished. Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge ...

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is quietly gaining local support to represent Virginia on a quarter to honor national parks. At least one state senator has written to Gov. Timothy M.

In 1979, when Virginia first allowed managed deer hunts in the Great Dismal Swamp, hunters leapt at the chance. And every year for the first decade or so, it wasn’t unusual to approve 1,400 permits ...