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Loxahatchee Photo Contest

29th Annual Photography Contest

Entries accepted:  to  Sunday, February 26
Reception and Award Presentation: Sunday, March 18, 1:00 p.m.

Entries for the Friends’ 29th annual Photography Contest will be accepted between November 26 and February 26. All entries must be taken on the Refuge or in areas adjacent to the Refuge, including the Stormwater Treatment Areas STA1E & STA1W.

Six categories will be accepted - Birds, Fauna, Flora, Landscapes, Artistic and Youth. All entries must be submitted on a CD or DVD. Winners will be announced at the Awards Reception on March 18 at 1:00 p.m.

CHNEP 2013 calendar: Art and photos are due July 14

  CHNEP 2013 calendar: Art and photos are due July 14
 
Submit your artwork for the CHNEP 2013 calendar
We live in a beautiful place and many of you have captured this beauty in your artwork, as is evidenced by the calendars produced by the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP) since 2005. The CHNEP is a partnership program working to protect the natural environment of Florida from Venice to Estero Bay to Winter Haven.
 
We hope you will consider being a part of the 2013 calendar.  Please let others know who you think may be interested in participating.
 
You can have your artwork published.

CHNEP 2013 calendar: Send art and photos

 

 

Submit your artwork for the CHNEP 2013 calendar
We live in a beautiful place and many of you have captured this beauty in your artwork, as is evidenced by the calendars produced by the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP) since 2005. The CHNEP is a partnership program working to protect the natural environment of Florida from Venice to Estero Bay to Winter Haven.
 
We hope you will consider being a part of the 2013 calendar.  Please let others know who you think may be interested in participating.
 
You can have your artwork published.

Blue Revolution: On science: Best books of the year

“Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis’’ by Cynthia Barnett (Beacon)
We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate. Barnett offers an evenhanded plea for a new water ethic, something that will “help Americans see that our future ecological - and economic - prosperity depends on how well we take care of the water flowing under our feet, down our rivers, and through our wetlands.’’
 

Off the Shelf – New Books

Off the Shelf – New Books

“Along the Caloosahatchee River”

by Amy Bennett Williams

“J.N. ‘Ding’ Darling Wildlife Refuge”

by Charles LeBuff

reviewed by Marya Repko
http://www.evergladesmulletrapper.com/pdfs/full_issue.pdf
 

Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics

http://www.amazon.com/Lawyers-Swamps-Money-Wetland-Politics/dp/1597268151
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them.
 
Readers will first learn the basics of administrative law: how agencies receive and exercise their authority, how they actually make laws, and how stakeholders can influence their behavior through the Executive Branch, Congress, the courts, and the media. These core concepts provide a base of knowledge for successive discussions of:

Last Train to Paradise

Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford’s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.

In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller and the true mastermind behind Standard Oil, concocted the dream of a railway connecting the island of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open ocean—an engineering challenge beyond even that of the Panama Canal.

Invasive Pythons in the United States

Invasive Pythons in the United States: Ecology of an Introduced Predator
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book (October 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0820338354
ISBN-13: 978-0820338354
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0820338354

Michael E. Dorcas is a professor of biology at Davidson College. He is the
author of six previous books including, with coauthor Whit Gibbons,
Snakes of the Southeast and Frogs and Toads of the Southeast (both
Georgia). John D. Willson is a postdoctoral research associate at Virginia
Polytechnic and State University. He has published exten­sively on snake
ecology and serves as a section editor for Snake Natural History notes in
the journal Herpetological Review.

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Grunwald - The Swamp Series from 2002

 http://www.ussugar.com/news/environment/archives_environment/2002/swamp.html

THE SWAMP
Publication: Washington Post
Printed: June 23-26, 2002
Written By: Michael Grunwald, Staff Writer

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