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EPA gives Florida new Everglades cleanup guidelines
Federal environmental regulators on Friday laid out a detailed blueprint for how Florida can finally live up to its repeatedly postponed pledge to clean up pollution flowing into the Everglades.
Read more...EPA calls for speeding up Everglades water cleanup
The agency also supports Crist's U.S. Sugar land deal The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday called for stepping up South Florida water pollution rules and gave its endorsement to Gov. Charlie Crist's Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp.
Read more...Under judge's order, EPA proposes rules for Everglades water cleansing
Under judge's order, EPA proposes rules for Everglades water cleansing
Read more...Florida votes to keep snook harvest closed in Gulf of Mexico; Atlantic Ocean will be reopened
By Terry Tomalin, Times Outdoors Editor Thursday, September 2, 2010 State wildlife regulators Thursday extended the restrictions on snook fishing on Florida's west coast and in Everglades National Park and Monroe County after thousands of the climate-sensitive sport fish died during January's cold weather. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously at a meeting in ...
Read more...Florida snook fishing restrictions extended
State wildlife regulators decided to extend restrictions on snook fishing in Everglades National Park and along Florida's West Coast after thousands...
Read more...Florida extends ban on snook fishing
PENSACOLA - State wildlife regulators extended Thursday a ban on snook fishing along the state's Gulf coast for another year, hoping that will give the species enough time to rebound from last winter's cold snap that killed thousands of the fish.
Read more...Monster pythons of the Everglades: Inside Nature's Giants series 2, part II [Tetrapod Zoology]
Episode 2 of series 2 of Inside Nature's Giants was devoted to pythons (for an article reviewing ep 1, go here ). Specifically, to Burmese pythons Python molurus . And, quite right too. Snakes are among the weirdest and most phenomenally modified of tetrapods: in contrast to we boring tetrapodal tetrapods with our big limb girdles, long limbs and less than 100 vertebrae, we're talking about ...
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