The river rolled beneath us as sheets of rain lashed down. I sat in the stern of our canoe with my friend Madeline in the bow. My dad, Joel, followed in his long red sea kayak. We sped past drooping ...

Some people call the Altamaha River "Georgia's little Amazon," but not Dorinda Dallmeyer. "I turn that phrase on its head and say 'No, the Amazon is Brazil's Altamaha,'" said Dallmeyer, director of ...

LUMBER CITY - This town got its name because, in these parts, there once existed the largest sawmill in the South. That, I'm sure you agree, makes sense. It is best known, however, for something else.

On a humid summer morning, I join John Jensen, herpetologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, on a tour of a wonderful, and protected, Altamaha River swamp on the Long-McIntosh county ...