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 ...
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 ...
Palm Beach Town Council to hear about Loxahatchee refuge dispute
By John Nelander January 10, 2017 Palm Beach Daily News Credit: Steve Brooks Organizations battling to keep the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in federal hands are turning ...
Environmentalists push to keep federal oversight of Loxahatchee refuge
By Andy Reid December 5, 2016 Sun Sentinel Credit: Steve Brooks State leaders' push to evict the federal government from running the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge threatens to weaken protections ...
What’s really going on with the Loxahatchee Refuge?
By Randy Schultz September 13, 2016 Sun-Sentinel Credit: Steve Brooks Is the bigger threat to one of South Florida's natural treasures an invasive species or invasive politics? That treasure is ...
Editorial: Water district wields heavy hand against Audubon
Editorial Board September 6, 2016 Palm Beach Post There appears to be a new atmosphere at the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), and not a good one. The agency ...
Sugar farmers struggle to meet Everglades pollution limit
By Jenny Staletovich August 9, 2016 Miami Herald Farmers in the Everglades just barely met the legal requirement for cutting pollution in water over the last year. According to figures ...
Lake Okeechobee draining will be reduced to combat coastal algae blooms
By Andy Reid, Contact Reporter July 14, 2016 Sun Sentinel To combat foul-smelling, toxic algae blooms plaguing coastal communities, officials decided Thursday to drain less water from Lake Okeechobee and spend ...
TC Palm Guest Column by Mike Holliday: How to end the cycle of destruction in our estuaries
By Mike Holliday - May 26, 2016 Florida's estuaries are under siege. At no time in our history has there been such a distinct collapse of our waterways as what ...