The Rivers Coalition, a Treasure Coast environmental group that has sued the federal government to stop discharges from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie Estuary, unanimously approved a resolution Thursday supporting a deal between the state and U.S. Sugar Corp. designed to move the water south instead. On Tuesday, the South Florida Water Management District [...]
Florida to pay U.S. Sugar $1.75-billion for 187,000 acres in Everglades
June 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In a surprise move environmentalists call “breathtaking,” U.S. Sugar Corp. plans to announce today a deal to sell the state 187,000 acres in the Everglades for $1.75-billion. If approved, it would be the largest conservation purchase the state has ever made, helping restore the ecosystem’s natural flow and providing a quantum leap to the effort [...]
Time to open "Glades tract" in Everglades
June 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Steve Waters -Outdoors Writer Now that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has a commissioner who is knowledgeable about the Big Cypress National Preserve and the Everglades, there is a chance that the FWC will finally get the federal government to stop screwing around and do what’s right. Ron Bergeron of Weston has [...]
Lake Trafford is getting a transplant & face lift.
June 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
By Kevin Lollar • June 1, 2008 This week a team from Florida Gulf Coast University planted 360 shoots of the aquatic grass vallisneria, also known as tape grass and eel grass, in shallow water on the southwest side of the 1,500-acre lake near Immokalee. Over the summer, the team will plant several thousand vallisneria [...]
