The wildfire on Friday had burned more than 5,700 acres in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. Most of the blaze is in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

The Great Dismal Swamp, as the name given to it by mosquito ... Elaine Luria in southeastern Virginia, and Rep. Greg Murphy and then-Rep. G.K. Butterfield from northeastern North Carolina.

The Dismal Swamp covered great tracts of southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina ... The most useful map was a digital representation of the swamp’s vegetation. It showed clusters ...

The proposed Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area is in the middle of a three-year feasibility study process. That includes a public comment period, which is open now until May 19th.

Joining southeastern Virginia with northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is a stretch of forested wetland that, in hindsight, doesn’t really live up to the “dismal” part of its ...

Fred Wurster’s favorite time to walk through the Great Dismal Swamp is at dusk ... parts of this coastal ecosystem in southern Virginia, which has grown drier and more vulnerable to wildfire ...

“The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge features a vast, mysterious landscape,” Gifford wrote. “It’s home to Lake Drummond, one of two natural lakes in Virginia, as well as some ...

Straddling the border of Virginia and North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp stretches 750 square miles and teems with thick, tangled vines. Lofty pine trees shade the sun; pools of standing black ...

Long a hunting site for Indigenous Americans, the Great Dismal Swamp also has a complex history as both a site for the forced labor of enslaved people (when George Washington and his Virginia ...

Serome Hamlin explores the Great Dismal Swamp ... human history of the swamp and learn how the unique ecosystem is protected. Featured on VHG episode 2306; August 2023. Virginia Home Grown is ...

a Colonial-era surveyor and satirist who in 1728 established the dividing line between southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina, is credited with blessing the Great Dismal Swamp with its ...