BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
YAWN. Pardon me, but the sea turtle nesting season for us patrollers is such a boring time. No new crawls have occurred since August 31 and the current nests we ar…
As the West Coast Inland Navigation District (WCIND) wraps up a year marked by three hurricanes, the agency is working on a number of waterway projects across Lee and Charlotte counties. “Great stri…
Work on a sand renourishment project at the south end of Gasparilla Island has now extended north past Belcher Road and the old “Bocahenge” docks.
This week, bulldozers were moving as they pumped…
Octopuses can rival the creatures of science fiction: big-eyed, multi-armed, soft-bodied, intelligent, alien, yet home-grown during the Earth’s late Jurassic period, about 140 million years ago.”…
SUP Englewood’s Coffee & Conservation series will return on Tuesday, Oct. 21, with a program focused on the gopher tortoise, a keystone species threatened by habitat loss and environmental chang…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
