A large bear is caught on tape meandering around outside Lee County Electric Cooperative’s Belle Meade substation, located on Collier Boulevard in Naples, just north of Marco [...]
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A python patrol could soon be on the trail of a slithering menace in Southwest Florida. For years, pythons have been spreading across the Everglades, raising worries about how the non-native invaders might disrupt the South Florida [...] “All of a sudden, it was like, ‘That’s a big snake,”‘ said Curry, a resource management specialist at Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research [...] Commissioner Frank Halas has asked that commissioners consider their legal options at their regular meeting Tuesday. [...] Marco’s Community Development Department is presenting the Florida Friendly Landscapes public workshop from 6 to 8 p.m., on Thursday, at Mackle Park, located at 1361 Andalusia Ct.. The courses will inform residents, including gardeners, landscapers and property owners, which species of plants to use and where to plant them to help save money, water and the surrounding [...] A plan to remove 12 stormwater pipes was a condition of a state permit issued to Collier County in 2005 to add sand to the [...] The HHH Ranch is seeking $92 million from Collier County after a 2002 rural growth plan restricted development and prohibited mining on 900 acres of the ranch in North Belle [...] The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting the meeting to update the public on the Merritt Canal portion of the Picayune Strand restoration [...] Black tie was not even an option. Black mud on the shoes, though, was a very real possibility for the nature lovers who attended the Friends of Fakahatchee’s Safari fundraiser on [...] Moraya Bay on Vanderbilt Beach says it owns the beach up to the erosion control line and can keep people off of [...] The chill may have put a damper on Sunday’s Panther Prowl Road Rally, but it didn’t stop volunteers for the ride. “It’s as much fun to volunteer as it is to participate,” said Mary Crawford, 60, who volunteers with the Friends of the Florida Panther Refuge, which sponsored the [...] City officials are ducking away from the allegation that any native mallards were removed from Marco’s Mackle Park. A day of fishing fun was cut short for an off duty Collier deputy Saturday, after he was bitten by a water moccasin at Florida Sports Park in East [...] State wildlife officials have created a special python hunting season to try to stop the spread of the nonnative snakes throughout the [...] New manatee speed zones are going up in Chokoloskee Bay in Everglades National Park by the end of the month, park rangers said. The zones will slow boaters and clear the way for federal officials to lift restrictions on boat dock repair and construction in the Everglades City [...] The new regulations will mean an end to restrictions on boat dock construction in the Everglades City area brought on by 2000 lawsuit by conservation [...] As part of a settlement last fall of a 2007 lawsuit filed by conservation groups, federal agencies had agreed to announce their findings by [...] Fans of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary have always viewed its towering cypress forest and long vistas of wet prairie to be world-class. On Wednesday, about 130 people gathered at the sanctuary to make it [...] Instead, the company will work to get permits under a disputed plan by a coalition of large landowners and environmental groups to save habitat for the endangered Florida [...] City Council members said the new plan advances the cause of Naples Bay restoration by laying out steps the city can take to get there and, for the first time, setting five-, 10- and 20-year benchmarks to measure [...] |
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