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Videos

Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Flamingo 09 Part 2, Camp lifeVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Mar 3    3 related articles

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By rss@youtube.com (JlerchTampa) Camping on the beach at East Cape in the Everglades National Park... Author: JlerchTampa Keywords: Flamingo Everglades National Park Camping Beach Florida Bay Camp Life Added: March 3, 2009

Rate Video: Everglades National Park Shark FishingVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Nov 17

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By rss@youtube.com (mrwaterfalls33) Catching and releasing a nine-foot lemon shark in Florida Bay in Everglades National Park in November of 2008. Author: mrwaterfalls33 Keywords: Florida shark fishing Everglades National Park Shark Fishing Flamingo Bay sharks Added: November 17, 2008

Stories

May of 2009

 

Rate New company provides teaching tools online

Original at Santa Cruz Sentinel external link    Tue, May 26

 CA In the Florida Bay, in Everglades National Park, there is a huge shallow area that is a sensitive habitat for many fish and birds. Power boats were tearing it up. There was talk about shutting the area down to power boats. ...

Rate Boater education key to Florida Bay health

Original at Sun-Sentinel.com external link    Sun, May 24    2 related articles

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 FL The National Parks Conservation Assoc., along with numerous partners, has developed Eco-Mariner, a voluntary online education course designed to help boaters and anglers enjoy and preserve Florida Bay in Everglades National Park. ... HOT TOPIC: EVERGLADES REPAIR Palm Beach Post

Rate HOT TOPIC: EVERGLADES REPAIR

Original at Palm Beach Post external link    Sat, May 23

  United States After 20 years of preparation, federal agencies were poised in December to put shovels in the ground along the Tamiami Trail north of Everglades National Park so that water could begin flowing to restore the Everglades and Florida Bay. ...

Rate Boaters, park officials clash over rules restricting use of ...

Original at Palm Beach Post external link    Sun, May 17

He says some members of the club, founded in 1934, were fishing Florida Bay long before President Truman created Everglades National Park in 1947. "It feels like we're being locked out of one of the places we enjoy going to most, and it's frustrating ...

Rate Florida Bay proposals would restrict boating

Original at Los Angeles Times external link    Sat, May 16

 CA Concerned that powerboats are tearing up seagrass in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park has proposed a range of possible restrictions on boaters to protect a vast, shallow estuary that supports sea turtles, fish and wading birds. ...

Rate Deadline's Friday for input into proposed Everglades National Park ...

Original at KeysNet external link    Wed, May 13

 Florida That's when the period to submit written comments on preliminary alternatives offered by Everglades National Park staff for managing its Florida Bay waters will close. Planners will then consider what their public response will be. ...

Rate (BPRW) US Army Corps of Engineers publishes draft plan for ... - Black PR Wire

Original at Black PR Wire external link    Fri, May 1    2 related articles

press release), FL The C-111 canal complex and the South Dade Conveyance System diverted natural water flows from southern Everglades National Park and Florida Bay. The C-111 Spreader Canal Project will reestablish beneficial flows to Taylor Slough and downstream areas ...

Rate Online guide: How to boat and fish without harming Florida Bay

Original at Sacramento Bee external link    Fri, May 1    2 related articles

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 DC - Susan Cocking Launched by the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association -- along with environmental, angling, paddling, governmental and business groups -- Eco-Mariner is being used as a pilot program by Everglades National Park, which is considering ...

April of 2009

 

Rate News from 2009

Original at Shallow Water Angler Magazine external link    Wed, Apr 22

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Many are now convinced that only a flowway south from the lake will save the coastal estuaries and restore the sheet flow of fresh water that historically reached Everglades National Park and Florida Bay. Another benefit of the land purchase is the ...

Rate 2nd Keys Everglades meeting is Monday in Key Largo: The future of ...

Original at TMCnet external link    Sat, Apr 11    5 related articles

Apr 11, 2009 (Florida Keys Keynoter - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A group of Upper Keys fishing advocates plans to release its own concept for Florida Bay management this weekend, in time for a Monday Everglades National Park ...

Rate 2nd Keys Everglades meeting is Monday in Key Largo

Original at KeysNet external link    Sat, Apr 11    5 related articles

 Florida By KEVIN WADLOW A group of Upper Keys fishing advocates plans to release its own concept for Florida Bay management this weekend, in time for a Monday Everglades National Park session in Key Largo. National Park Service staff returns to the Keys for ...

Rate Some are opposed to channel markers in Florida Bay shallows

Original at MiamiHerald.com external link    Wed, Apr 8    2 related articles

 FL BY KEVIN WADLOW Channel markers intended to protect Florida Bay shallows could make matters worse, Florida Keys fishing guides and anglers told Everglades National Park staff. ''You're going to put in markers so Joe Blow and his 30-foot boat can go ...

Rate Outdoors notebook: 3-pound, 10-ounce redfish tops at Teen Anglers ...

Original at Vero Beach Press-Journal external link    Mon, Apr 6

 FL Everglades National Park planners will conduct public meetings to present proposed drafts of a general management plan for backcountry and Florida Bay waters. Park users are debating boating restrictions that will prohibit combustion engines in large ...

Rate Everglades National Park Public Meetings Slated for April

Original at Florida Sportsman Magazine external link    Thu, Apr 2

 FL Everglades National Park (ENP) planners are conducting public meetings on April 13, 14, 15 and 16 to present and discuss proposed alternative drafts of an eventual general management plan for both backcountry and Florida Bay waters within ENP ...

Rate What the anglers say about the Everglades proposals

Original at KeysNet external link    Wed, Apr 1    2 related articles

 Florida Florida Keys guides and fishermen expressed their concern about new regulations and channel marking proposed for Florida Bay at a Monday hearing held by Everglades National Park staff in Key Largo. Jack Curlett, Key Largo angler: "This is hardball and ...

March of 2009

 

Rate Everglades management plan open for public comment, meeting is ...

Original at KeysNet external link    Sun, Mar 29    5 related articles

 Florida By KEVIN WADLOW Backcountry boaters and anglers hear directly from Everglades National Park staff on possible Florida Bay regulations at a series of hearings beginning Monday in Key Largo. The first of seven South Florida meetings opens with informal ...

Rate The Nature Conservancy applauds passage of Historic Public Lands Act

Original at The Nature Conservancy external link    Thu, Mar 26

 VA Under the leadership of Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Everglades National Park Expansion provision will assure the protection of a key resource in the Florida Bay. The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around ...

Rate The Nature Conservancy Applauds Passage of Historic Public Lands Act - PR Web

Original at PR Web external link    Wed, Mar 25

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press release), WA Under the leadership of Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Everglades National Park Expansion provision will assure the protection of a key resource in the Florida Bay. The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around ...

Rate New rules for Florida Bay

Original at KeysNet external link    Sat, Mar 21    5 related articles

 Florida By KEVIN WADLOW New Everglades National Park rules for Florida Bay should combine boater access with increased resource protection, says an Upper Keys group of anglers. Prospective plans written by park staff have improved over 2007 versions, ...

Rate NOAA Fisheries plans to hold six public hearings, including one in...

Original at MiamiHerald.com external link    Sun, Mar 15

 FL Everglades National Park wants to help keep boaters from running aground on fragile seagrass beds throughout Florida Bay. The park has produced a free, 12-minute DVD targeted specifically at Florida Bay boaters. It is based on the Florida Bay Map and ...

Rate Florida Bay preservation proposals heed boaters' concerns

Original at MiamiHerald.com external link    Sat, Mar 7

 FL BY CURTIS MORGAN The waters of Florida Bay in Everglades National Park cover nearly a half-million acres laced with sea grass banks and dotted with too many mangrove islands to count or name. Yet even in this vast expanse, it's hard to find a patch of ...

Rate Anglers digesting Everglades park proposals that were just ...

Original at KeysNet external link    Wed, Mar 4

 Florida By KEVIN WADLOW Everglades National Park staffers return to Key Largo twice this spring to learn what Keys residents think about new proposals to manage Florida Bay. After the latest set of alternatives was released Friday, local conservationists and ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Senator Muddies Everglades

Original at Tampa Tribune external link    Mon, Feb 23

 FL The US Sugar property sits between Lake Okeechobee and Everglades National Park. It will be used to build and hold massive reservoirs that will filter polluted water before it flows on to the Everglades and Florida Bay. Cleaning up the Okeechobee ...

Rate Wild file: American white pelican

Original at The News-Press external link    Sat, Feb 14    29 related articles

 FL The white pelican winters as far south as Nicaragua and Guatemala, and especially in Florida's Everglades National Park and Florida Bay, when they can find privacy and the right habitats. The bird is in decline here, though, because of habitat ...

Rate Prop scarring stretches hundreds of miles

Original at KeysNet external link    Sat, Jan 31

 Florida - No one really knows how badly boaters have scarred the bottom of Florida Bay, say Everglades National Park researchers. But a park study can account for at ...

Rate New reports: Seagrass scarring worse problem than thought

Original at KeysNet external link    Wed, Jan 28    2 related articles

 Florida - By KEVIN WADLOW Florida Bay has taken a beating from boaters over the decades, say new studies by Everglades National Park staff. ...

Rate Sea grass meadows being damaged in Florida Bay

Original at MiamiHerald.com external link    Sun, Jan 25    29 related articles

 FL BY SUSAN COCKING Fishing guides and anglers can expect to face some boating restrictions to help protect damaged sea grass meadows in Florida Bay in Everglades National Park. Park officials said they almost are ready to release a new set of four ...

Rate ‘First Mondays’ discusses obstacles facing Everglades restoration ...

Original at Captiva Current external link    Thu, Jan 8

 FL - Jan 8, 2009 Also affected by this lack of water and lack of water quality are Biscayne Bay, coastal wetlands, Everglades National Park and Florida Bay, Wessel noted. ...

Rate ‘First Mondays’ discusses obstacles facing Everglades restoration ...

Original at Island Reporter external link    Wed, Jan 7

 FL - Also affected by this lack of water and lack of water quality are Biscayne Bay, coastal wetlands, Everglades National Park and Florida Bay, Wessel noted. ...

Rate Winter Flats Fishing

Original at Shallow Water Angler Magazine external link    Fri, Dec 26

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 - Shallow Florida Bay inside the Everglades National Park boundary is a good winter flats fishery that offers shots at multiple species. ...

Rate GPS malfunctions cause Florida Bay problems

Original at KeysNet external link    Tue, Nov 25

 Florida - Nov 26, 2008 We got a lot of important feedback" during the 2007 review, said Fred Herling, supervising planner at Everglades National Park. ...

Rate Keys: We need a say in the new plan

Original at KeysNet external link    Fri, Nov 14

 Florida - Nov 15, 2008 An afternoon panel at 1:30 pm hears fishermen and other user groups speak on the economic importance of Florida Bay. At 3 pm, Everglades National Park staff ...

Rate United States: Everglades Deal Shrinks to Sale of Land, Not Assets

Original at Forests.org external link    Wed, Nov 12

But most of the company`s land could continue to be farmed until the state needs it to reconnect Lake Okeechobee to Everglades National Park and Florida Bay. Mr. Coker said he expected to see sugar on the land for at least a decade. ...

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