Smoke from a wildfire in the Great Dismal Swamp is already having a dismal effect on the Richmond area's air quality. The smoke started sweeping across the Richmond area Friday night, casting a ...

The now globally rare Atlantic white cedar was in high demand, and gaining access to the trees required digging ditches to drain the swamp. By the 1950s, the last of the virgin timber in the Great ...

The Great Dismal Swamp is home to one of Virginia’s highest concentrations of black bears, according to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (Photo courtesy of Rob Wood and the U.S ...

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.

The proposed Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area is in the midst of a 3-year feasibility study process. Trump withdraws nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik for U.N. ambassador 41 States That ...

Today, however, the largest intact chunk of the Great Dismal Swamp is thriving with an abundance of wildlife. That’s because in 1974, after a series of land purchases by or donated to the ...

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge hosts its 13th annual Birding Festival on April 27, with guided bird and nature walks, bus tours, natural history presentations, live raptors ...

Starting on Jan. 8 through March 31, the Great Dismal Swamp Canal will be closed to boating traffic due to a infrastructure refurbishment project at the Deep Creek Locks in Chesapeake.

Serome Hamlin explores the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge with Manager, Chris Lowie, to talk about the natural and human history of the swamp and learn how the unique ecosystem is ...

The tire in the Dismal Swamp does not seem to abate. We were informed last week that it was confined to the undergrowth, but intelligence has reached us that it has got into the best timber. The ...