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Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides
Articles on land and wildlife conservation efforts, as well as the management of Florida’s waters.
A follow-up to the conservation legacy of Teddy Roosevelt's administration, The Weeks Act was signed by William Howard Taft in March 1911. It authorized the Federal government - for the first time - to purchase private land to protect watersheds throughout …
During their first-ever bat monitoring program at Picayune Strand State Forest, FWC found a rare and endangered species - the bonneted bat, Florida's largest bat.
I'm pleased to report that Everglades National Park is now on Twitter, sharing what their staff (and wild places) are up to, including trapping Burmese pythons.
It took community support to stave off a commissoner's plan to sell a Marion County park
Atop one of the highest points in Florida stands a monument to an immigrant who lived the American Dream and decided that his legacy would be to preserve this high point: Bok Tower Gardens.
Sinkholes are a serious problem in Central Florida, and the finger can be pointed at overdevelopment. Here's why: it's all about the water.
A historic moment for the Florida Trail: the reunion of three of the original trailblazers, 40 years after they painted the first blazes of the Florida Trail heading north from Clearwater Lake in the Ocala National Forest.
