ST. PETERSBURG ― The tram was halted as a small, slithery black snake scurried across the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve trail. “I’ve been out here for the last year, pretty much every week,” Nancy Norton, ...

The Bokeelia land purchased by Lee County is near Smokehouse Bay Preserve and within the Matlacha Pass Aquatic Preserve at the NE end of Pine Island.

Obeying an under-the-radar executive order, the Army Corps of Engineers has expedited every permit asking for destruction of wetlands throughout the United States, including a strip that runs unbroken ...

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