Florida's LARGEST State Park Is Lonely (and a bit scary)

A race is on to restore the Florida Everglades

How the U.S. Government Broke the Everglades

Even my hard-headed dad understood the importance of Florida’s wetlands

We buried my dad last week. Oscar Pittman had a good, long life. He’d just turned 87, and he and my mom had celebrated 67 years of marriage. more

Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of the Everglades

Friends Of The Everglades: Homestead is at a Tipping Point

HERE

Smoke in The Everglades

The Smoke Comes Every Year. Sugar Companies Say the 

Air Is Safe. here

The Everglades Need Your Help

And they want to use Congress 

to take more!

Alcee Hastings and Rick Scott, two Florida politicians in the pocket of Big Sugar, are trying to add language to the 2020 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) to make Big Sugar’s cane fields the top priority for water flow. HERE

The Everglades Need Our Help

Sugar lobbyists trying to slip in language in Washington while no one is looking.

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Under the cover of a global pandemic, lobbyists for the sugar cartel are trying to slip in language to the federal Water Resources & Development Act (WRDA) of 2020 that will make toxic discharges more likely and starve the Everglades and Florida Bay of the freshwater they desperately need. INFO

FLORIDA: SILENT, SNEAKY SUGAR PLAN EXPOSED!

Under the cover of a global pandemic, lobbyists for the sugar cartel are trying to slip in language to the federal Water Resources & Development Act (WRDA) of 2020 that will make toxic discharges more likely and starve the Everglades and Florida Bay of the freshwater they desperately need. HERE

We cannot let them drill for oil in the Everglades

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried calls it “outrageous” to allow oil-drilling on-shore in the Everglades and Apalachicola basin, a move that would put “precious water, popular beaches, and wildlife at great danger of being tainted 
by an oil spill.” HERE

Florida GOP not stopping on-shore oil drilling

State on the verge of allowing drilling in both the Everglades and 
Apalachicola basin.

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Oil companies have been far more successful with drilling on land in Florida. Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection has done little 
to stop them. HERE

Helen Frigo of Jensen Beach Asks

We can see Louisiana from space. The heel and sole of the “boot” is pretty much gone. Channelizing and controlling the Mississippi River has deprived the Delta (swamp) of land-creating soil. Has Florida been doing the same with its River of Grass? HERE

Young Florida Panthers with Mother

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Everglades

This place "Kanter Real Estate LLC" wants to drill for oil in the Everglades.

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Broward County and the city of Miramar 

tried to stop it.

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They dropped their legal efforts to have the Florida Supreme Court hear the case, saying they didn’t receive cooperation from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. HERE

Trump Snubs Everglades Clean-Up

Coastal oil drilling could come next. Fortunately he doesn’t have the last word on the Everglades.

Florida GOP expressed everything from anger to astonishment upon hearing that the president’s 2020 budget proposes just $63 million for the “River of Grass.” Gov. Ron DeSantis and the others had wanted $200 million. HERE

Ducks Unlimited New CEO Adam Putnam

Ducks Unlimited has hired a new CEO to direct the international wildfowl habit restoration group.

Considered one of the nation's largest conservation philanthropies, DU relies on donations and grants to fund its $220 million annual budget. 

The bulk of the money is spent on wildfowl habitat in areas ranging from Alaska and Canada to the Mississippi flyway and
 the Gulf Coast. HERE

Drunk History: Marjory Stoneman Douglas Fought for the Everglades

'Not Here, Not Now, Not Everglades

Environmentalist supporters held signs in Everglades Holiday Park, to join with local lawmakers in opposing the Kanter Real Estate LLC oil drilling permit in the wetlands. HERE

More Oil Rigs In The Everglades

Florida's First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee ruled that an investment company in Broward County — Kanter Real Estate — can build an oil well in a section of the Glades just west of Miramar, near the Broward/Miami-Dade County line. Kanter's land sits in a state conservation area. HERE