The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Huge gator to be honored in Okefenokee/Associated Press/April 28, 2008
Waycross — The most famous resident of the Okefenokee Swamp Park will soon be immortalized, nearly a year after his death.
The skeleton of Oscar the alligator, who roamed the swamp from the time the park opened in 1946, is being assembled like a museum dinosaur. Park officials they decided to pay homage to the 14-foot, 1,000-pound alligator after finding his body last July.
Visitors will be able to see everything Oscar survived in his six decades at the park — a shotgun blast to the face, at least three bullet wounds to the head, broken bones and arthritis. The display also will include what park officials found in Oscar's belly after his death — a plastic dog collar, a dog's tag, a penny, rocks and the top section of a flagpole.
The Okefenokee is a 438,000-acre National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Georgia that attracts 350,000 to 400,000 visitors a year.
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