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Morgan Completes His Eagle Project
Brendon Morgan's Eagle Scout project included installing new fencing at the Everglades Youth Camp.
Everglades Restoration Plan Is Failing, Report Says
An ambitious, multibillion-dollar effort to restore Florida's Everglades is floundering due to bureaucratic delays, and the ecosystem may be close to a tipping point, according to a new congressionally mandated ...
Report: Everglades in decline as restoration lags
A new report finds that funding shortfalls, a complex federal permitting process and disagreement among stakeholders has led to little progress in a sweeping multibillion-dollar effort to restore Florida's ...
Report: Everglades in decline, restoration lagging
A multibillion-dollar effort to restore Florida's Everglades has made little progress amid funding shortfalls, bureaucratic red tape and disagreements, according to a congressionally mandated report that warns ...
To penetrate the narrow, overgrown channels that weave through the mangrove swamps at the southwestern tip of Florida, speed is of the essence.
Clyde Butcher's monumental photographs of American landscape
The Everglades, and all of natural Florida, holds a beauty seldom seen by tourists, or even native residents.
Snail kites fare poorly amid lagging Everglades restoration
An afternoon drizzle coats the slate-brown bird in a miserable-looking shroud of dampness.
Serpent Searching In The Everglades
NAPLES GREG KAHN NAPLES DAILY NEWS Paul Andreadis, a herpetologist at Denison University in Ohio, explores a path in Collier-Seminole State Park for snake tracks.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain speaks to the media during a visit to the Everglades Safari Park AS Florida Governor Charlie Crist stands behind him June 6, 2008 in Miami, Florida.
US Sugar buyout: sweet deal for the Everglades?
Removing land from cane production could help save this environmental jewel. By Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the August 20, 2008 edition Miami - Banged out in secret ...
Fay's eyewall bringing hurricane-strength gusts
Fay's eyewall is tearing a path along the rim of Lake O. Gusts of 74, 76 and 81 mph have been reported west of the lake, although the 81 mph gust was recorded at about 100 feet up in the air.
Sugar cane is a viable alternative
Three cheers to attorney Lester Lehtinen for bringing up possible violations of Florida's Sunshine Law and questioning the purchase of U.S. Sugar property for $1.7 billion.
Rising lake boosts water supply
What a difference a year -- and a decent rainy season -- makes. The Everglades brim with water.
Urge Moratorium on Everglades Development
Recognizing the environmental importance of the Everglades, the state of Florida is planning to purchase 187,000 acres of land to restore its waterways and estuaries.
Use rain barrels to wash cars and keep plants green? Seminar tells how
Armed with a 55-gallon drum, Julee Felinski intends to harness the power of Florida's heavy downpours.
The state plans to buy some 300 square miles of land from U.S. Sugar Corp., putting the nation's largest producer of cane sugar out of business.
Boggy Creek Airboat Rides Review in Orlando Florida
Boggy Creek Airboat Rides Review in Orlando, Florida There is no feeling in the world like skimming over the Everglades in an air boat.
Florida carefully collects alligator eggs to replenish farmers' ponds
IN THE EVERGLADES, Florida : It's 7 a.m. in the marsh, and like some sort of cigar-chomping swamp cowboy, biologist Lindsey Hord is about to reach for something that could cost him a few fingers - or worse - if ...
In the Florida Everglades, Brandon Hall and Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission biologist Lindsey Hord begin to collect alligator eggs from a nest of mud and material gathered by the female alligator.