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The Everglades Need to Go Viral: Five Ads the Park Should Look to for Inspiration (Videos)

​The Everglades has a marketing problem. Earlier this week, officials from the Everglades National Park and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization got together for a chat about how to better market the park to lure in tourists. As the Miami Herald reports, during ... More >>

Python Destruction of Everglades May Be Overhyped

​At the end of January, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study suggesting that Burmese pythons were decimating mammal populations in the Everglades. The numbers were shocking: a 99 percent decline in raccoon sightings, a 98 percent drop in opossum  ... More >>

Public Has Three More Days to Comment on Possible New Wildlife Refuge

Coming to a cattle ranch near you.​The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has extended the public comment period for a proposal to turn 150,000 acres of savanna ranch land north of Lake Okeechobee into the "Headwaters of the Everglades National Wildlife Refuge." The acquisition would cost $700 million ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Ever Ever Land

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 >>

Rock Out With Your Swamp Out

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 >>

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

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 >>

On the Hunt for Exotic Lizards in the Florida Everglades

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 >>

Cliff Hanger: Worker Tells of Subterfuge by Port Everglades Firm

Photo: Miami-Dade State Attorney's OfficeIs Cliff Berry Jr. still involved in a Port Everglades franchise?​After people are convicted of felonies, they have to wear orange jumpsuits. After Cliff Berry, Inc., was convicted of a felony, it also made a wardrobe change -- into shirts bearing the brand ... More >>

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Details on the Everglades Club's Policy Toward Jews

Flickr user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.In this week's cover story, "The Chef and the 'Amigo,'" New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach's oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the Everglades Club, was ... More >>

South Florida's Best Fishing Hole, the L-67A Canal, Falls Victim to Environmentalists

Flickr user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.In this week's cover story, "The Chef and the 'Amigo,'" New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach's oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the Everglades Club, was ... More >>

Picture Perfect

Flickr user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.In this week's cover story, "The Chef and the 'Amigo,'" New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach's oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the Everglades Club, was ... More >>

Blowing in the Wind

Flickr user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.In this week's cover story, "The Chef and the 'Amigo,'" New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach's oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the Everglades Club, was ... More >>

Crist's Secrecy Prompts Suit

Flickr user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.In this week's cover story, "The Chef and the 'Amigo,'" New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach's oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the Everglades Club, was ... More >>

Grand Screen

Flickr user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.In this week's cover story, "The Chef and the 'Amigo,'" New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach's oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the Everglades Club, was ... More >>

The Best Reason Not To Vote For Obama

Flickr user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.In this week's cover story, "The Chef and the 'Amigo,'" New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach's oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the Everglades Club, was ... More >>

Swamp Theme

Everglades' old guard girds for county park fight

Ask the Food Critic: How do Locals Get a Hold of Local Fruit?

Everglades' old guard girds for county park fight

Swamped by Beauty

Until Douglas came along, the consensus was that the Everglades was just a watery obstacle to development

Twin Peaks

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

Best Place to Paddle

The Lakes section of Hollywood

Best Birdcage

Bird Depot

Studying the River of Grass

Exhibit offers a history of Florida's wetlands

Ike and Mamie's Navels

Floyd Wray was the Sunshine State's Johnny Orangeseed

Plant Huggers

Why aren't palms trees and other timeless questions

Happy on the Outside

Everglades National Park's subsurface tsuris

Letters for September 26, 2002

Bashing Bush

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

Letters for July 25, 2002

Hey, birdbrains

For the Birds

Should 2700 little sparrows be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

Best Place to Enjoy the Everglades

I-75 Rest Area

Best Park in Broward

West Lake Park/Anne Kolb Nature Center

Best Picnic Spot

John U. Lloyd Beach State Park

Swamp Wars

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

Best Weekend Getaway

On the Banks of the Everglades Bed and Breakfast Inn

No Bird Is an Island

Conservationist Paul Reillo has waged a one-man campaign to save Dominica's parrots from extinction

Outward Bound

Outdoor Adventures Klub

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.

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.

A Tree Hugger Turned Tree Hater

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

Best Local Politician/Broward

Kristin Jacobs

Best Place To Witness The Failed War On Drugs

Port Everglades

Outdoor Photo Ops

Port Everglades

Demon Seed

Patient Zero in the melaleuca plague is hiding out in plain sight in Davie

River of Images

Patient Zero in the melaleuca plague is hiding out in plain sight in Davie

Adding Fuel to the Mire

A million gallons of petroleum has leaked into the environment at Port Everglades. So what's being done about it? Nothing.

The Hunted

Tracking animals in the Everglades is a tiring, maddening business. Which is just how a decreasing number of hunters like it.