List of National Natural Landmarks in Georgia
There are ten National Natural Landmarks in Georgia.
|
Name |
Image |
Date |
Location |
County |
Description |
1 |
Big Hammock Natural Area |
|
01976 1976 |
|
Tattnall |
Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest. |
2 |
Camp E.F. Boyd Natural Area |
|
01974 1974 |
|
Emanuel |
One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain |
3 |
Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest |
|
01972 1972 |
|
Harris |
An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types. |
4 |
Ebenezer Creek Swamp |
|
01976 1976 |
|
Effingham |
The best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin. |
5 |
Heggie's Rock |
|
01980 1980 |
|
Columbia |
The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops. |
6 |
Lewis Island Tract |
|
01974 1974 |
|
McIntosh |
One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. |
7 |
Marshall Forest |
|
01966 1966 |
Rome |
Floyd |
A loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma. |
8 |
Okefenokee Swamp |
|
01974 1974 |
|
Charlton, Clinch, Ware |
One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country. |
9 |
Panola Mountain |
|
01980 1980 |
|
Rockdale |
The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiograpic province. |
10 |
Wassaw Island |
|
01967 1967 |
|
Chatham |
Only island of the Golden Isles with an undisturbed forest cover. |