Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia

Bond Swamp NWR, Round Oak, Georgia: Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge sits on the fall line that separates the piedmont plateau and the coastal plains. The Ocmulgee River and Stone Creek, which run through the refuge from north to south, were important to Native Americans from Ice Age hunters to the Muscogee (Creeks) and Seminoles of more recent history as well as early European explorers and frontiersmen. Because of its position along the fall line and the two waterways, Bond Swamp contains a variety of habitats, including this cypress swamp, and a corresponding diversity of species. The robust redhorse sucker, a rare fish once thought to have disappeared entirely from the Ocmulgee was rediscovered in the river near the refuge in 1999. The refuge is also home to several anadromous fish, including the endangered shortnose sturgeon.