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Big Cypress National Preserve

  • News

    March 5, 1998

    It Came From the Swamps!

    A huge, hairy beast that walks upright and craves lima beans is stalking South Florida's marshland.

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    Bureaucrats Play "Skim the Cat"

    Money from Florida's best-selling license plate was supposed to help protect the panther. Instead it's going for swamp buggies and butterfly gardens.

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    A Tree Hugger Turned Tree Hater

    Determined to save his beloved Everglades, Chris Murch has become a melaleuca hit man

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters for November 2, 2000

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    Letters for September 26, 2002

    Bashing Bush

  • News

    December 25, 2008

    Hog Huntin'

    A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

  • Culture

    February 3, 2005

    Artbeat

    Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

  • Culture

    June 3, 2004

    Twin Peaks

    Adams and Butcher at MoA: Grand masters of sharp-focus nature photography

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    Buyout Revisited

    Yoo-hoo! Investigators! Check the president's pockets!

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Yoo-hoo! Investigators! Check the president's pockets!

  • News

    July 31, 2003

    Paradise Crushed

    A lush idyllic chunk of the Everglades was transformed by bulldozers and a huge tree-eating juggernaut

  • News

    October 24, 2002

    Land Grab

    Doug Peterson paid a cool half million for his place. Now the government wants a chunk of it.

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Big Cypress Buyout

    Proposed payment of millions to a wealthy clan amounts to nothing more than stealing from taxpayers for the Bush boys' political gain

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Geri Clark's Destiny

    Davie's first black elected official has had to conquer the town's racist past... and her own fear

  • News

    June 14, 2001

    Slaughter Alley

    Big, dead cats in the middle of the road -- lots of them

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Swamp Wars

    Beset by feds and environmentalists, the good ol' boys of Big Cypress National Preserve circle the buggies

  • Calendar

    September 14, 2000

    Praying at the Orchid Altar

    The slide lecture "Orchids of the Fakahatchee Strand"

  • Calendar

    September 2, 1999

    Outward Bound

    Outdoor Adventures Klub

  • News

    July 17, 1999

    Postcards From the Edge

    Peace and quiet, great fishing, tax-free land. Welcome to the Everglades, where "hunt camps" are enjoying a new lease on life.

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Postcards From the Edge

    Peace and quiet, great fishing, tax-free land. Welcome to the Everglades, where "hunt camps" are enjoying a new lease on life.

  • Culture

    October 8, 2009

    Review: Gary T. Erbe, Clyde Butcher, and Stephen Althouse at the Boca Raton Museum of Art

    Peace and quiet, great fishing, tax-free land. Welcome to the Everglades, where "hunt camps" are enjoying a new lease on life.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Will the Florida Everglades Brush Fire Make For Tasty Swamp Food?

    Smoke filled Fort Lauderdale skyline​What's that smell? Yesterday and this morning, many South Floridians woke up to the smoky stench of a brush fire blazing in the Everglades. The fire, destroying over 28,000 acres, has been burning in the Big Cypress National Preserve since April 26th, reports S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Florida Panther Population Up to a Whopping 160; Everything Is Wonderful Now

    ​Hunters and environmentalists are clashing over a plan that would open the last unhunted section of Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades to hunting. Opponents argue that a man-made reduction in the white-tailed deer population would reduce a primary food source for the region's dwindli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Broward County Commission to Oppose Everglades Drilling (Which Already Exists)

    Flickr/boggerthelogger​In next Wednesday's meeting, the Broward County Commission will move to adopt language in its state and federal legislative programs "opposing any oil drilling or exploration in or around the Everglades."The legislative programs are a set agenda of issues that the County Com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    South Florida Environmental Groups Join Lawsuit Against National Park Service

    Plaintiffs don't want the Everglades to look like this.​Several environmental groups, led by the Washington-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, filed a lawsuit last week against the National Park Service, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    State Representative Wants to Re-Open Old Oil Wells in South Florida

    BallotpediaMatt Hudson, R-Naples​The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that there are about 370 million barrels of undiscovered oil under South Florida -- and State Representative Mark Hudson (R-Naples) wants to go looking for it.Specifically, he wants to go back to old plugged or dry wells and giv ... More >>

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