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Sat., Feb 12, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Everglades Day, ARM Loxahatchee NWR. SAVE THE DATE – SATURDAY FEB 12, 2011! Who: Come one, come all —free, family friendly, for public of all ages! What: 12th Annual Everglades Day Festival — “FOREVERGLADES” Where: Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, 10216 Lee Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33473-4797 When: Saturday, February 12, . . . → Read More: Everglades Day just around the corner Saturday February 12, 2011 8am-4pm Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge 10216 Lee Road , Boynton Beach 12th Annual Everglades Day Festival – “Foreverglades ” PRESCRIBED BURN – 12 Noon (WEATHER PERMITTING) As we focus on SCIENCE this year, “Foreverglades”, the 12th Annual Everglades Day Festival at A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, is bringing . . . → Read More: 12th Annual Everglades Day, Feb 12, 2011 It’s never too early to plan for Everglades Day, the annual showcase event at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. This season’s event takes place on February 12, 2011. The theme is “Foreverglades.” This free festival runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, see our Everglades Day webpage, or download . . . → Read More: Everglades Day, February 12, 2011 Slightly edited USFWS press release below; nice to see our local refuge hitting prime time! The sun was barely up, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees were briefing Mike Rowe on the day they had planned for him: He would head deep into the Florida Everglades on an airboat and wade into the waist-deep . . . → Read More: Melaleuca removal at Loxahatchee NWR to air in primetime, Oct 26 SAVE THE DATE – SATURDAY FEB 12, 2011! Who: Come one, come all —free, family friendly, for public of all ages! What: 12th Annual Everglades Day Festival — “FOREVERGLADES” Where: Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, 10216 Lee Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33473-4797 When: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8 AM to 4 PM How: . . . → Read More: Everglades Day: Save the Date! Johnny Jones, executive director of the Florida Wildlife Federation in the 1970s and 1980s, has passed away. He was a leader in combating the environmental destruction that confronts Florida today: ill-conceived drainage plans, the over development of marginal lands, and the destruction of the Everglades ecosystem. Jones spearheaded the major effort to address the ecological disaster inflicted . . . → Read More: Johnny Jones passes away It’s here! Come to the 11th Annual Everglades Day Festival –“Arts in the Everglades ” Saturday Feb 6, 8am-4pm at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, 10216 Lee Road , Boynton Beach In this official “Year of the Everglades”, come visit and enjoy our precious heritage with trained guides and special tours, outdoor canoeing, presentations, and special art and nature events. Free, family friendly, . . . → Read More: Everglades Day Festival coming up This Saturday, September 26, is National Public Lands Day, a great day to get out and check out the happenings at our local NWR, the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. The grand opening of their visitor center is coming up (Saturday, October 17), so why not head over there early and check out . . . → Read More: National Public Lands Day September 26 Florida’s development community has admitted that their recent effort to downlist the Wood Stork from federal Endangered status to Threatened is merely the first step in an attempt to get them removed from protection by the ESA completely. Read the story in the Sun-Sentinel, or follow the jump to the next page for a few . . . → Read More: FL developers seek to downlist Wood Stork The program for Everglades Day is now available; it’s a 1.5MB download, but worth the wait! This year’s Everglades Day will take place on February 7, 2009. For more information, visit our Everglades Day page. The governing board of the South Florida Water Management District voted 4-3 to accept the terms of the US Sugar land buyout, “subject to amendment.” While we’re not quite sure what the legal status of that phrase is, one thing is clear: the possibility of recreating sheet flow south of Lake Okeechobee is still alive. . . . → Read More: SFWMD votes to acquire US Sugar Land Audubon of Florida today released a call for bold action on Everglades restoration in light of scientific consideration that this unique ecosystem is reaching an ecological tipping point beyond which environmental degradation becomes irreversible. “As the National Research Council found, to do nothing is to do harm,” Executive Director David Anderson said. “That is . . . → Read More: AoF says Everglades at Tipping Point; Bold Action Required Our friendly neighborhood lawyers have derailed Everglades restoration yet again. Mod Waters, the original and still the most important element of restoration, which long predates CERP, has been put on hold yet again, as the Miccosukee tribe objects to the project in court. From Audubon of Florida: Construction of a 1-mile bridge along an eastern . . . → Read More: Everglades Restoration delayed…again. The Miami Herald reports the approval of the SFWMD board for the new deal. Just yesterday, AoF circulated a press release touting the virtues of the revised deal, which allows the state to purchase the US Sugar lands, but leaves the other assets to the company. Here is an excerpt from AoF’s press release: The deal, which must . . . → Read More: US Sugar Deal approved by SFWMD Despite the damaging releases of polluted Lake O water down the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie “rivers,” the water is piling up all over south Florida: in the Big Cypress, in the Water Conservation areas, and in Everglades National Park itself. According to a story in this morning’s Miami Herald, the water levels are threatening deer . . . → Read More: When it rains, it pours The news is about what could be expected: nearly 10 years after beginning Everglades restoration, no major component is complete. The 50-50 partnership established in 2000 isn’t faring too well either: the federal government isn’t paying its share, and the state has been unable to focus its priorities effectively. All this in the National Research . . . → Read More: National Research Council report on Everglades Restoration This just in from Hendry County: JOINT GOVERNMENTAL MEETING BETWEEN HENDRY COUNTY AND THE CITIES OF CLEWISTON AND LABELLE The public is invited to attend a joint governmental meeting between Hendry County and the Cities of Clewiston and Labelle on the South Florida Inland Port Project. The meeting will be held on October 2, 2008 . . . → Read More: Meeting re Inland Port in Clewiston  Comments are closed  Conservation, Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Latest News  Clewiston, Inland Port, Lake Okeechobee For those of you who don’t get the email updates, here are the comments from Audubon of Florida about the U.S. Sugar purchase and the restoration of Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades. The gist is this: buy the land south of Lake O and use it for filter marshes so we can release water to . . . → Read More: AoF’s comments to SFWMD re Lake O Comments are closed Conservation, Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Latest News Lake Okeechobee, US Sugar This just in from the SFWMD: The South Florida Water Management District Governing Board is scheduled to meet this week on Wednesday and Thursday, September 10-11, 2008. On Wednesday, September 10, District staff will be providing an update on the “River of Grass” land acquisition project during the scheduled Board committee meetings and workshop. The . . . → Read More: SFWMD to meet about land acquisition Comments are closed Conservation, Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Latest News SFWMD. Everglades, US Sugar This is the second in a series of “standing issue” posts that I plan to morph into standing pages on the Conservation portion of the website. But since pages can’t receive comments easily, I thought I’d post the drafts, as it were, in case anyone out there had anything to add to our pages. Phosphorus, . . . → Read More: Phosphorus Comments are closed Conservation, Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Latest News agriculture, Conservation, EAA, Everglades, phosphorus Below is the press release from the South Florida Water Management District about the way they handled the negotiations with U.S. Sugar, and the timeline for the remainder of the process. Our Conservation Committee attends the SFWMD’s public meetings, and will be able to monitor developments as they occur. . . . → Read More: SFWMD fact sheet re US Sugar negotiations and “sunshine” law |
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