While its size is only a fraction of the BWCA/Q Canoe Country, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge offers some great January/February paddling (which BWCA/Q does not!). It's managed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, with maps and other information available on line. ONWR can be accessed from several points. We've done multi-night trips from the east side's Suwanee Canal Recreation Area and the west side's Stephen C Foster State Park, and have also done day-paddling trips from both sides. We still need to explore routes from Kingfisher Landing, but fire damage and low water levels have kept us from visiting the northeast corner of ONWR. During this year's visit, we saw or heard barred owls, sandhill cranes, wood storks, white ibis, great blue herons, little blue herons, great egrets, little egrets, snowy egrets, red shouldered hawks, and others. With the warm weather, lots of 'gators were out, too, and some early flowers are blooming.