Walker promoted a comprehensive program of forestry activity, including the establishment of forest parks.

She erected markers and monuments along old trails and at historic sites, in Waycross and Ware County so that local history would not be forgotten.

[5] An effort to recognize her work culminated in President Franklin D. Roosevelt issuing a proclamation to establish the Laura S. Walker National Park, located in Ware County, in her honor.

A large portion of the county lies within the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected areas.

In the 1992 election, Ware County gave Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican George H. W. Bush an exact tie, the most recent time in American history a county was tied between the two major party presidential candidates.