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NEWS ABOUT: Everglades

Everglades stories: 11 news summaries
ANALYSIS

 Fla. Python Hunt 
 More Wild Goose Chase 


Jul 30, 09 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “Great Florida Python Hunt” is on, but the prey population is likely smaller—and less dangerous—than advertised, Paul Quinlan writes in the Palm Beach Post. Proponents have said there could be 100-150,000 Burmese pythons in the Everglades, a figure the media has seized upon. But the... More »

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Florida • snake • Bill Nelson • Everglades • predators • burmese python • national park • hunt

(Newser) - With Florida’s python population exploding, state wildlife officials are going on the offensive, hiring a team of trained hunters to track down the alarmingly large snakes and take them out, the Miami Herald reports. “There’s one way to do this: kill the snakes,” says Florida Sen.... More »

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Florida • snakes • hunting • Charlie Crist • Bill Nelson • Everglades • pythons

Fla. Eyes Loosing Bounty Hunters on Pythons

Some 150K snakes living in Everglades

May 29, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - With pythons slithering amok in the Everglades, Florida wildlife managers are toying with the notion of employing bounty hunters to cull the population, the Miami Herald reports. “If we don't get on top of this, they're going to eradicate the indigenous species of the Everglades,” said one. Officials... More »

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Florida • snake • wildlife • Everglades • bounty hunter • burmese python • pythons

(Newser) - As a revised deal by US Sugar to sell 180,000 Everglades acres to Florida nears completion, critics are stepping up their efforts to derail it, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal, hailed by environmentalists, would allow the state to restore natural waterways, but opponents see it as a... More »

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Florida • environment • Everglades • bailout • sugar cane • preservation • U.S. Sugar Corporation

 Buyout Bid Threatens 
 Everglades Protection Plan 

Farming company offers to buy US Sugar

Nov 21, 08 12:36 PM CST
(Newser) - A possible new bid has thrown a wrench into the state of Florida's plan to buy most of US Sugar's land for $1.34 billion and use it to help restore the Everglades, the St. Petersburg Times reports. The Lawrence Group, which has tried twice before to buy US Sugar,... More »

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Florida • Charlie Crist • Everglades • Lake Okeechobee • U.S. Sugar Corporation • Lawrence Group

Analysis

 Big Sugar's Exit
 Gives Hope to
 Everglades 

Florida land deal boosts ecological preservation efforts

Jul 9, 08 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everglades restoration may finally be a reality, writes Michael Grunwald in Yale Environment 360 during his “vacation from defeatism.” Florida's tentative $1.75 billion land deal with US Sugar would halt sugar production (and pollution) on nearly 300 square miles, and have an ecological ripple-effect that extends... More »

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Florida • endangered species • sustainable development • Charlie Crist • biodiversity • Everglades • U.S. Sugar Corporation

Fla.'s Crist Works Across the Eco-Lines

Guv backs alternative energy, but open to more oil drilling

Jun 26, 08 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is walking an environmental tightrope between encouraging conservation and alternative energy, and promoting oil exploration off the state’s coast, the Wall Street Journal reports.  Recent moves include the purchase of 300 square miles in the Everglades—a deal that shuts down the nation’... More »

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Florida • energy • John McCain • environment • Charlie Crist • Everglades • vice presidential sweepstakes

 Florida Buys Sugar Land
 to Save Everglades 

State will acquire 175,000 acrose

Jun 24, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Florida plans to buy 187,000 acres of land from the nation's biggest sugar company in what both state officials and environmentalists are hailing as a landmark deal to save the Everglades, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Under the deal, which may not be finalized until November, Florida will pay... More »

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Florida • environment • Charlie Crist • Everglades

Everglades
Wildfire Claims 33,000 Acres

Blaze threatens endangered
sparrow, homes

May 19, 08 2:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly 33,000 acres of Florida's Everglades National Park were burning yesterday with only 20% of the blaze contained, CNN reports. A dense smoke warning was in effect in parts of southern Florida as flames threatened an endangered sparrow species and private property. The fire is the latest in a... More »

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Florida • endangered species • firefighters • wildfires • Everglades • smoke

Dems, GOP Pounce on Bush Over Water Veto

Congress may unite to hand him first override of his presidency

Nov 3, 07 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush is gearing up for another battle with Congress, but his latest fray could result in the first overriding of one of his vetoes, the Washington Post reports. His rejection yesterday of the water resources bill, popular with Democrats and Republicans, is a gamble because it may endear him... More »

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Florida • Congress • Hurricane Katrina • Democrats • Republican • Louisiana • veto • Mississippi • Michael Mukasey • fiscal conservatives • Everglades • water resources bill • pork barrel spending • George W. Bush

Plan to Save Everglades Sinking

Lack of cash hobbles four decade long effort

Nov 2, 07 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - An $8 billion effort to reverse generations of destruction of Florida's Everglades is faltering because federal financing has slowed to a trickle. Despite a much-heralded bipartisan agreement in 2000, the 40-year project to save the subtropical marsh is already far behind schedule, and thousands of acres of wildlife habitat continue... More »

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Fred Thompson • restoration • Jeb Bush • Everglades • South Florida Water Management District • Lake Okeechobee • Nathaniel P. Reed • Army Corps of Engineers • George W. Bush

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