Brevard leads state with 98 manatee deaths
Mon, 09/26/2016 - 7:08pm
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The best thing that can be said about Florida’s recent report of manatee deaths in 2015 is that it could have been worse.
Tickets can now be issued for boats on verge of going derelict
Mon, 08/29/2016 - 11:19am
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Instead of waiting for neglected and abandoned boats to meet the strict criteria of illegal derelicts — often too late to prevent difficult, expensive removal problems — Florida police
New super coming to Biscayne Park
Mon, 08/29/2016 - 11:00am
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Who says there’s no such thing as climate change? Not Margaret Goodro, a National Park Service superintendent who’s about to experience it for herself.
Hurry if you want to be the state’s Lionfish King
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 1:21pm
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It’s time to file away your fantasies about your coronation as Lionfish King of Florida.
Dolphin showing up in encouraging numbers
Tue, 07/26/2016 - 1:18pm
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No sooner did Waterfront Times report last month on a curious scarcity of early-season schoolsize dolphin than they began showing up in encouraging numbers.
Florida’s national parks a boon to local economies
Fri, 06/24/2016 - 3:23pm
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What’s a national park worth to the towns near it? Plenty in terms of money spent by visitors and local jobs created and sustained by that patronage.
It’s official: Snook have rebounded from 2010 freeze
Fri, 06/24/2016 - 3:08pm
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Complete recovery of snook from the catastrophic cold kill of January 2010 has been o-fish-ially proclaimed.
Early payback offered to build Everglades lodging
Thu, 05/26/2016 - 1:40pm
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New overnight lodging facilities are so sorely missed at Flamingo in Everglades National Park that potential concessionaires are being offered early payback of their construction costs — $5,3
State-sponsored Lionfish Awareness Day draws 7,000
Thu, 05/26/2016 - 1:36pm
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Lionfish catchers took 14,067 of those little villains out of Florida seawaters during the state’s second annual Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day, actually a whole weekend on May 14-15.
Got a sawfish story? Tell it to the state
Thu, 04/28/2016 - 12:08pm
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The sawfish is a peculiar creature with a long snoot resembling an oldtime lumberjack’s two-man felling saw, with long teeth on both sides.