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 ...

This image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows coal trains that derailed in the Great Dismal Swamp national Wildlife Refuge in Chesapeake, Va., Wednesday June, 26, 2019.

The Great Dismal Swamp has long been recognized for its importance as a National Wildlife Refuge, and now local activists and members of Congress want it to get a similar federal recognition for it… ...

The swamp, said Marcus P. Nevius, author of “City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856,″ was “both a place of slave labor’s exploitation and a place ...

A lightning strike caused a wildfire that consumed more than 6,500 acres in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in August 2011. Swamp fires like this often burn for months because of ...

An aerial view of the property where the Great Dismal Swamp Wildlife Refuge and the City of Chesapeake plan to build a joint refuge and visitor center in southern Chesapeake. As seen Wednesday ...

The Great Dismal Swamp is now a refuge for wildlife but back then it was a refuge for people escaping slavery, one historian said. Beginning in the 1600s, they found a secret permanent settlement ...

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.

SUFFOLK, Va. - Construction work has started on a project to increase resiliency and reduce impacts from floods and wildfires at the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. The $3.13 million ...

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 there over the course ...

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 ...

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 there over the course of… ...