3,500 Help Celebrate 8th Everglades Day: Wildlife Refuge Captivates Kids and Grownups
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By Rhonda J. Miller, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 11--More than 3,500 people came out to stroll amid cypress and live oak trees and get a look at spindly-legged birds and leathery alligators at Everglades Day on Saturday.
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By Keri Holt, Destin Log, Fla.  Dec. 16--Wildlife artist Janetta Gee of Fort Walton Beach sees her work as more than portraits of wildlife.
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By Melissa McEver, Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas  Jun. 23--LAGUNA ATASCOSA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE -- The waters of the Bahia Grande are flowing freely once again.
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BARTOW, Fla. -- Federal and state officials say Florida&#39;s agriculture industry, battered by an unprecedented rash of hurricanes, is eligible for $500 million in disaster relief funds.
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By Tatiana Prophet, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Dec. 19--VICTORVILLE -- The emergency-response community came together Monday to celebrate the lives of three of their best.
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The state is providing $200,000 in grants to help eight communities and nonprofit organizations restore damaged wetlands, Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles announced this week.  Plymouth and the Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research are among the recipients.
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By RICHARD BURGESS  Cleanup workers pulling hurricane debris out the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge have tallied an impressive list: 752 tires, 1,190 appliances, 294 propane tanks and more than 1,000 hazardous materials containers, ranging from bucket-sized drums to a 10,000- gallon tank.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 15--After years of negotiations, the gates finally have been opened for visitors to the 17,000-acre Juniper Dunes Wilderness Area northeast of Pasco.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 17--FLORIDA CITY, Fla. -- The Everglades can be a surprisingly noisy place.   There were the strange, catlike sounds from the small heron sitting in a tree.
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By Sallie James, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 8--CORAL SPRINGS -- With every scoop made by a rumbling trackhoe, injured turtles and waterbirds came closer this week to having a new home at the Sawgrass Nature Center.
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By David Vest, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Dec. 17--As traffic zipped by on busy 11th Street on a brisk December day, students at A.D. Harris High School celebrated a small victory for the natural world.
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Thirteen of the 31 deaths linked to Hurricane Charley in Florida last month were people over age 60, many of them apparently
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PENSACOLA, Fla. Sept. 19, 2004 - Across Florida, hundreds of relief workers fanned out Sunday to help still-numb families. Motorists waited in lines miles long to buy gas and get free food, ice and water.
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By Jessica Klipa, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb. 24--EAST MANATEE -- Bluegrass music, arts and crafts and an introduction to natural Florida are being offered at Lake Manatee State Park today. And admission is free.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 20--A coastal community can never have too many qualified lifesavers on the beach.
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Dorset sanctuary saves 88 monkeys from confinement in world's biggest rescue mission of its kind
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OWLS HEAD - The Knox County Regional Airport is seeking a federal permit to fill 7.6 acres of wetlands as part of an expansion project.