Sports & Outdoors
Appreciation for our Kawasaki ‘Hatch’
September 18, 2025
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
Here we are in mid-September, and the number of remaining incubating nests continues to steadily decrease as the last nests hatch. No new crawls have occurred sinc…
Clean Water: We all depend upon it
September 18, 2025
BY THE BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY
Editor’s Note: This is the last of six weekly wildlife articles submitted by the Barrier Island Parks Society to raise awareness about the issues facing our is…
Stump Pass Beach State Park reopens after hurricane repair
September 18, 2025
Parts and pieces of all the Florida State Parks in this region are now available for use with this week’s partial opening of Stump Pass State Park, which sits at the tip and south end of Manasota Ke…
County seeks state funds for beach renourishment
September 18, 2025
At Tuesday’s Board of Lee County Commissioners meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to approve a resolution requesting funding for State Fiscal Year 2026-27 from the Florida Department of Enviro…
CAPT. VAN HUBBARD: Get on the boat, reflect
September 18, 2025
Despite challenges, we still enjoy special ‘place of paradise’
I understand we will see hotter weather again. I’m enjoying our recent overcast skies and cooler fall-like days. Our Gulf and Bay wa…
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The Resiliency Summit
September 18, 2025
The state takes on water, weather
Above, Mary Margaret Hull of Southwest Florida Water Management District. Photo by Angela
The fifth annual Southwest Florida Resiliency Summit brought togethe…
EcoWatch: The cost of political violence rises in today’s world
September 18, 2025
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated reframes of nature in the assurance that da…
Eighteen thousand loggerheads hatched so far
September 11, 2025
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
As I’m writing this article, BGSTA turtle patrollers have completed 278 inventories involving the sea turtle nests on Gasparilla Island. In previous articles, I’ve…
Cedar Point plans volunteer open house on Monday
September 11, 2025
Cedar Point Environmental Center will host a volunteer open house and intracoastal cleanup on Monday, Sept. 15, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the park, 2300 Placida Road.
The event, held in partners…
Renourishment items at Tuesday Lee Commission
September 11, 2025
There are two items related to Gasparilla Island beach renourishment on the agenda at Lee County’s Tuesday, Sept. 16 meetings.
There is a consent agenda item related to beach funding for the Flor…