Five members of Congress have asked President Obama to protect the Florida panther. ...more

April 10, 2009

Bradenton Sen. Mike Bennett has come up with a slippery way to kill Everglades restoration. He's demanding the state's plan to purchase 180,000 acres in the Everglades from U.S. Sugar be put to a vote by affected taxpayers. ...more

February 24, 2009

Here's a few of the dozens of commemorative resolutions sponsored or co-sponsored this session by Florida's two U.S. senators and the Tampa Bay area members of the U.S. House. ...more

December 26, 2008

Congress considered more than 2,000 feel-good resolutions during the two-year session that ended last month. ...more

December 26, 2008

A decade from now Gov. Charlie Crist will be credited with either overseeing the greatest conservation achievement in Florida history or orchestrating one of biggest boondoggles ever foisted on taxpayers. ...more

December 18, 2008

It has been a long, tiring summer for those who have a taste for the tasty white fillets of Centropomus undecimalis, the common snook. The season has been closed on the west coast since May 1 to protect spawners, but it reopens Monday and continues through November. ...more

August 29, 2008

It's never a good sign when an animal disappears from the place that gave it its name. ...more

August 27, 2008

The deal announced Tuesday by Gov. Charlie Crist for the state to buy 187,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land south of Lake Okeechobee and put it back into natural marsh is epic both in the size of the parcel and the impact it will have on the environment in South Florida. ...more

June 25, 2008

AVON PARK –– Mollie Doctrow grew up as a city brat in California. Nature wasn't part of her family picture. They stayed in hotels and never camped out. But from her first outdoor experience with Girl Scouts at 16, she fell in love with nature and became the family oddball. "Something connected and filled this spot inside me, and the more time spent in nature, the more connected I feel," Doctrow remembered. She received her master's in fine arts from California State University in Northridge with a specialty in printmaking. While teaching at Brevard College, she visited a friend in the Sebring area. Doctrow stayed, created artwork and fell in love with the environment. For the past three years she has been the curator at South Florida Community College's MOFAC (Museum of Florida Art and Culture) which is dedicated to the art and artists of Florida whose work interprets Florida history, heritage and the environment. Doctrow contacts artists and schedules shows and events to showcase their work. In addition, she also teaches computer graphics, drawing, printmaking and design at SFCC. ...more

February 4, 2008

Much has been made of government's decision last summer not to pump phosphorous rich water into Lake Okeechobee. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson claims that this one decision - which some claim will somehow deprive growers of some irrigation water - makes up $4 million of the $1 billion in losses expected to Florida's farm economy. Further, sugarcane farmers argue that sugar production (and presumably profits) may fall by 20 percent. ...more

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