BY DENISE JUERGENS, ARLENE HALL BGSTA SECRETARY
If you are comparing the BGSTA’s weekly turtle stats listed each week in this paper, you may have noticed a slight increase in both the loggerhead…
May your Halloween be scarier than what’s actually going on in this country.
A meme often shared around the country
Welcome to Halloween 2025, which has turned from a one-night celebration int…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
Another amazing week of fall fishing here in Boca Grande! The weather has been very comfortable and the fish have been biting!
We are mainly targeting snook right now…
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
Ansel Adams, Feb. 20, 1902-April 22,1984
An American landscape visionary photographer, and environmentalis…
BY JAMES J. BLAHA, BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
George Eliot, famous novelist, poet, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian Era, said that “Animals are such agreeable friends – they as…
Adoptive ‘parents’ for nests across Gasparilla Island
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
As of this week, the 2025 sea turtle nesting season for the BGSTA is down to single digits, with only six…
Serious costs ahead for advanced wastewater treatment
We have a serious problem with wastewater treatment. We’re dumping minimally treated sewage into our waterways while burying our heads in the…
BY DELORES SAVAS
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
It’s starting to feel like fall here in Boca Grande and the fish in the backcountry are fired up with these cooler temps!
Redfish have been the star of the show so far…
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
If you’ve watched the local TV news or read a local newspaper these past couple of weeks, there have been many stories about the impacts and recovery associated wi…
