By GORDON JACKSON FOLKSTON - After five years of work to secure federal funding, ground was broken Friday for the Okefenokee Environmental Education/ Concession Building.

By Dan Chapman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jul. 23--MANOR, Ga. -- Nobody died. One firefighter broke a leg. Only 18 homes burned to the ground. The Okefenokee Swamp withstood three-quarters of the wildfire's wrath in Georgia, yet the destruction there revitalized the park's ecology.

Ernest Sweat paused by the charred pine trunk he found burning like a match two months ago and wondered - could he have stopped the largest Southeastern wildfire in more than a century?

WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Barry and its remnants gave a much-needed soaking to thousands of acres of burning swamp and timberland in northern Florida and southeastern Georgia.

By GORDON JACKSON FOLKSTON -- Despite the arrests of at least nine people suspected of setting arson wildfires in the region the past month, firefighters have been repeatedly called to extinguish suspicious blazes in the region.