In the Florida Keys at its 34th Annual Conference, the Everglades Coalition today released its Everglades Rescue Mission, highlighting key priorities for federal and state lawmakers for Everglades restoration in 2019. Meeting downstream of Everglades National Park on the waters of Florida Bay, the Coalition will call for increased funding to advance projects to send [...]
Seven years after the creation of the Peace River Refuge Florida Forever Project, the first conservation easement within the project boundary was established Friday, Jan. 20. This inaugural conservation easement on 65 acres owned by John and Jeannette (Forest) Reynolds was purchased by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida (Conservancy) and made possible through a settlement [...]
Kids cruise free with purchase of adult admission Pure Florida’s Fort Myers location will offer a Marine Science Kids Cruise on Saturday, Jan. 7 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The Marine Science Kids Cruises are free to children with paid adult admission as part of Pure Florida’s Kids Cruise Free Saturdays at 10 a.m. program. [...]
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida is hosting a special Evenings at the Conservancy program, The Ripple Effect of Polluted Water Releases, on Tuesday, Aug. 16 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The free program will be held at the Jeannie Meg Smith Theater inside Eaton Conservation Hall at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida Nature Center, 1495 Smith Preserve [...]
Pavese Law Firm partner Katherine English has been appointed to serve a two-year term as chair on the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Issue Advisory Committee on Water and Water Quality. The American Farm Bureau Federation, or AFBF, works to enhance and strengthen the lives of rural Americans and to build strong, prosperous agricultural communities through [...]
