Guest AuthorNovember 18, 2024
Efforts are underway to ensure that the promise first made by Congress in 2000 continues to be kept.
Tag: River of GrassImage via AP.
Guest AuthorNovember 18, 2024
Jesse SchecknerJanuary 20, 2023
5min0
‘The Everglades is the cornerstone of survival for the people, plants, and animals who call it home.’
Anne GeggisJanuary 19, 2022
5min0
Debbie Wasserman Schultz says it's the 'largest environmental restoration project in American history.'
Guest AuthorMarch 30, 2017
6min483
As a former state legislator and now a member of Congress, I’ve been proud to support investments in protecting Florida’s natural resources, including the Everglades. While located far from the Emerald Coast, the Everglades are about as iconic in Florida as the Blue Angels, the Space Shuttle, and the orange. Everglades National Park alone welcomes […]
Staff ReportsMarch 5, 2017
7min463
The daughter of Everglades Foundation founder George Barley says the group today is nothing like the one her father launched decades ago. In an op-ed for the Orlando Sentinel Catherine Barley-Albertini, now a freelance writer in California, says the Everglades foundation has “badly lost its way” from its initial mission of Everglades restoration. Barley-Albertini reflects […]
William MarchFebruary 21, 2016
6min239
A proposal to remove a statue of a Confederate leader at the National Statuary Hall is generating speculation among Florida legislators about whose image should replace it. Legislation to replace the statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith doesn’t propose a successor. Smith’s place in history is due to his being the last officer to surrender […]
Associated PressApril 22, 20156min147
Amid lurking alligators and the steamy heat of Florida’s Everglades, President Barack Obama on Wednesday sounded the alarm about damage from climate change he said is already wreaking mayhem in Florida and across the United States. In an implicit rebuke to Florida’s governor and other Republicans, Obama accused those who deny the man-made causes of […]