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Staff ReportsDecember 7, 2017

Eric Sutton, assistant executive director of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), will move up to executive director of the agency, effective Friday. The commission announced the move Thursday. Nick Wiley, the current executive director, retires later this month. In a press release, commissioners touted Sutton’s extensive experience with challenging conservation issues and his positive […]

Staff ReportsNovember 6, 2017

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Chair Brian Yablonski is leaving Florida to become executive director of the Property and Environment Research Center based in Bozeman, Montana. Founded in 1980, PERC is a national conservation research institute that focuses on entrepreneurship and market-based solutions to environmental problems. Yablonski replaces Reed Watson, who is leaving […]

Guest AuthorNovember 4, 2015

I was doing research about Florida’s astonishingly efficient bear hunt and I came across an equally astonishing analogy. The chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission wrote this about hunting: “Think of it as nature’s Whole Foods.” In fairness to Brian Yablonski, here’s that nugget in context: “Hunting is the first and original […]

Guest AuthorNovember 3, 2015

I was doing research about Florida’s astonishingly efficient bear hunt and I came across an equally astonishing analogy. The chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission wrote this about hunting: “Think of it as nature’s Whole Foods.” In fairness to Brian Yablonski, here’s that nugget in context: “Hunting is the first and original […]

Phil AmmannJuly 2, 2015

BP has agreed to pay a record $18.732 billion to resolve claims by five Gulf states of violating the Clean Water Act, harming natural resources, and other economic damages from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As a part of the agreement announced Thursday, Florida will receive at least $3.25 billion. The overall deal has […]

Bruce RitchieApril 15, 2015

Florida’s wildlife commission voted Wednesday to move forward with a rule to allow bear hunting in response to bear attacks and other encounters in urban areas. Florida had nearly 3,000 black bears in 2002, and they were removed from the state threatened species list in 2012. Bear hunting was banned by the state in 1994 […]

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Personnel note: Eric Sutton tapped as new FWC director

FWC chair Brian Yablonski to join Montana-based environmental think tank

Tom O’Hara: They don’t sell bear meat at Whole Foods

Tom O’Hara: They don’t sell bear meat at Whole Foods

DEP, FWC respond to record BP settlement, applauds Gulf Coast recovery progress

FWC OKs bear-hunting proposal, final vote in June