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SFWMD: Year-round water conservation begins March 15 in South Florida.http://bit.ly/aq56mF
SFWMD: Year-round water conservation begins March 15 in South Florida.http://bit.ly/aq56mF
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SFWMD: Gov. Charlie Crist supports SFWMD Governing Board’s vote to extend land acquisition deadline for Everglades restoration http://bit.ly/bfIbE5
SFWMD: Gov. Charlie Crist supports SFWMD Governing Board’s vote to extend land acquisition deadline for Everglades restoration http://bit.ly/bfIbE5
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SFWMD: #Everglades restoration land acquisition deadline extended. http://bit.ly/aztW4C
SFWMD: #Everglades restoration land acquisition deadline extended. http://bit.ly/aztW4C
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Everglades restoration deal gets lifeline
Gov. Charlie Crist's prized, half-billion-dollar Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp.
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Loggerhead turtles move toward U.S. endangered species list
The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S.
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NYTimes tees up Crist’s Everglades land deal with U.S. Sugar
[caption id="attachment_1189" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Times flays sugar deal"][/caption]The New York Times weighed in this morning with a 4,300-word, front-page story on Gov. Charlie Crist's Everglades restoration land deal. Not happy press for a deal that is, by all recent accounts, "hanging by a thread" and becoming increasingly unaffordable, given the ...
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The making of the Northern Everglades National Wildlife Refuge?
[caption id="attachment_1175" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Hatchineha Ranch"][/caption]Last November, the Nature Conservancy closed a deal on 5,134 gorgeous acres of scrub, sandhill and flatwoods north of Lake Wales called the Hatchineha Ranch. The seller, who paid $27 million for it five years earlier, planned to build 4,900 homes on a portion of ...
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Florida a conspicuous no-show at annual coral reef summit in Washington
Florida takes great pride in its copious coral reefs, which rival even those of the Caribbean, the state's environmental agency boasts on its website. Imagine, then, the surprise among delegates at this week's annual gathering of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force in Washington that the state of Florida — ...
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Sting, McEnroe headline Everglades Foundation benefit in Palm Beach
[caption id="attachment_1155" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The Breakers Hotel hosts Everglades gala for 2nd year in a row"][/caption]Environmentalism never looked so swank.
The Everglades Foundation once again proves it knows how to party, with its fifth annual benefit set to go off Friday night at The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, a shindig ...
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Feds deny petition for Florida panther habitat
Environmentalists pledged to sue after the federal government today rejected their petition to declare 3 million acres of South Florida — an area twice the size of Delaware — critical habitat for the endangered Florida panther.
Such a designation would have significantly raised the bar for developers seeking permits in the ...
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Florida Supreme Court to issue final word on Crist’s Everglades land deal
[caption id="attachment_1142" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Florida Supreme Court to hear oral arguments April 7"][/caption]Florida's Supreme Court fired off a ruling today that consolidates the outstanding legal challenges to Gov. Charlie Crist's half-billion-dollar Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp., setting the stage for a final courtroom showdown in Tallahassee on ...
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Florida Supreme Court sets court date for Crist’s U.S. Sugar land deal
The Florida Supreme Court announced that oral arguments over Gov. Charlie Crist's Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. are set for April 7.
Chief U.S. Sugar Corp. rival Florida Crystals Corp., owned by the Fanjuls of Palm Beach, and the Miccosukee Indian Tribe, which lives in the Everglades, have ...
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Gov. Crist resurrects Florida Forever in environmental wish list
Gov. Charlie Crist has pitched a relatively modest $2.1 billion environmental budget request that drew a tepid response for all but one component: the resurrection of Florida Forever.
Crist has proposed funneling $50 million to the state land-buying program, which got stiffed last year for the first time since Gov. Bob ...
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Everglades conference coming to town. Who’s coming with it?
Don't expect a paparazzi-flanked red carpet, but the 25th Annual Everglades Coalition Conference is coming to town this weekend — and with it, appearances (and potentially conspicuous absences) by a few big-name politicos.
Gov. Charlie Crist, for one, isn't expected to make it this year, even though last year he accepted ...
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Poll vs poll: Floridians love-hate Crist’s Everglades land deal with U.S. Sugar
Floridians are apparently bipolar, judging from the last two polls concerning Gov. Charlie Crist's proposed Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp.
Or maybe, as Sen. John Kerry might say, Floridians were simply for it before they were against it. At the very least, these two polls prove there is ...
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Loggerhead sea turtles proposed for endangered listing
The most common sea turtle to nest on Southwest Florida beaches would move from threatened to endangered status under a proposal unveiled today by federal agencies.
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Marco beach tilling to protect loggerhead sea turtles
Beach tilling from Hilton Beach Resort to Cape Marco scheduled March 24 to help conserve loggerhead sea turtles
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SFWMD: #Water #Conservation Tip: Remember to reset your irrigation timers when Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday. www.savewaterfl.com
SFWMD: #Water #Conservation Tip: Remember to reset your irrigation timers when Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday. www.savewaterfl.com
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