After you win first place in the python-whacking contest in Florida, you might be tempted to spend some of that $1500 on a famous Everglades Pizza featuring frog legs, gator meat, and ground python. Know that the Everglades’ superintendent highly recommends against doing so. “For some reason, the pythons that are coming out of here, [ more... ]
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The U of Miami managed to run their research catamaran aground back in 2007 and just recently have agreed to pay $482,000 in damages (actually their insurance company will pick up most of the tab). The newspaper doesn’t give an account of the crash but it’s safe to assume that the school’s legendary party reputation [ more... ]
Tags: coral, environmentsetc, florida
An Everglades airboat captain made a series of bad decisions. The first was feeding an alligator a fish by hanging it over the side of the boat. The second was patting the water after the nine-foot alligator took the fish to try to rile the alligator to return. The water-patting incident ended with him one-handed-dialing [ more... ]
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Once you get away from all the garbage in Miami you can still find some pretty wild places in Florida. The state is moving towards creating a Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and seeking public comments on the scope of the project. Through June 29 people can offer their opinions on the sanctuary’s zones and [ more... ]
Tags: conservation, florida, Green, National Parks, nps, public commenting
The political machine running through Florida is making moves to privatize more than 50 state parks allowing corporations to develop the camping areas and add RV sites, allegedly. If it goes through, you can count on it happening in other states with similarly inclined governments — this is a new theory I’ve developed that I’m [ more... ]
Tags: Camping, florida, state parks
In the 1960s the U.S. led the charge in protecting coastal areas by creating the world’s first underwater park. The 75sq miles around the Florida Keys were designated a state park that prevented divers from using chisels and dynamite to blow apart the reef to sell the colorful coral to tourist shops. As with any [ more... ]
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A Florida man stole a Fish & Wildlife Commission boat and took it on an early morning joyride until the Coast Guard caught up with him. It reminds me of the time some students stole the president of our university’s golf cart, except the in this case the guy impersonated a cop to take the [ more... ]
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I visited a friend in Florida and had to rent a car for a few days. He suggested I rent a motorcycle instead. I told him I didn’t have a license and he said, “Dude, it’s Florida. I’m sure you don’t need a special license.” Turns out he was right. Florida is a lawless place [ more... ]
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Galapagos is taken off the UNESCO endangered list and the Everglades are added. Maybe Ecuador could spare a few of their ecologist to offer some advice on how to avoid completely destroying Florida. I’m just going to throw this out there – they might say, “Stop building condos,” or just “Stop building Flori-Bama theme parks [ more... ]
Tags: conservation, everglades, florida, national park, National Parks, unesco