Special Report on Wetlands
Recently a land planner requested a change in the Martin County Comp Plan, which protects small wetlands. The LPA recently voted against this public request. It now goes before Martin ...
Steep decline in wading bird nesting, SFWMD annual report shows
By Dacia L. Johnson March 8, 2017 TC Palm The South Florida Water Management District this week released its annual South Florida Wading Bird Report which showed the lowest wading bird nesting count ...
Plan that includes keeping toxic algae from waterways is now bigger and more expensive
By Mary Ellen Klas March 8, 2017 Miami Herald TALLAHASSEE A Senate plan to bond $1.2 billion in state funds to build a water storage reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee ...
Water managers declare Everglades nearly clean; the people who live there say not yet
By Jenny Staletovitch March 3, 2017 Miami Herald For much of the last year, the South Florida Water Management District has circulated a set of maps plotting water quality that ...
Sen. Negron: Plan to curb discharges by speeding up dike repairs won’t work
By Tyler Treadway March 2, 2017 TC Palm In a memo to fellow senators Thursday, Senate President Joe Negron dismissed a proposal to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges by holding more ...
First Big Win In Effort to Save Small Wetlands
Written by Stuart Attorney Virginia Sherlock of Littman, Sherlock & Heims, P.A. The Local Planning Agency voted 3-1 in a jam-packed chamber Thursday evening to deny approval for CPA 17-07 ...
Everglades Foundation: Restoration project would have $20 billion impact
By Susan Salisbury February 28, 2017 Palm Beach Post As the controversy over a proposal to purchase land for a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee continues, Tuesday the Everglades Foundation ...
Eve Samples: Economic Council co-founder resigns, citing U.S. Sugar
By Eve Samples February 24, 2017 TC Palm Bud Jordan is not a radical. He has been an investment broker in Stuart for more than four decades. He's a member ...
A southern reservoir would curb more Lake Okeechobee discharges
By Tyler Treadway February 23, 2017 TC Palm Holding more water in Lake Okeechobee sounds like a simple enough way to limit polluted discharges to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers. But when ...