Tag: Florida Department of Environmental Protection

New sign at state park boasts new logo

August 16, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN The Florida Department of Environmental Protection launched a new Florida Park Service website in 2018, and this year they launched a new logo to help promote the 175 state parks, trails...

Algal bloom dashboard will give even more info on water quality

May 31, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT Furthering the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s commitment to making water-quality information more readily available and understandable to the public, the agency...

Become a volunteer water quality monitor

To the Editor: The health of Lemon Bay is important to us all and each month volunteers monitor the water quality at sites from Alligator Creek in Venice to Bull Bay in Placida to see that it stays...

Coral Creek convergence newest acquisition for CHPSP

July 6, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT The Florida Department of Environmental Protection announces the permanent protection of the 55.7-acre Coral Creek Peninsula as an addition to the Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park...

Little information available about $1 million that would have gone to Gasparilla Island State Park

July 3, 2015
Boca Beacon
Featured News

BY JACK SHORT – An item stricken from the 2015-2016 Florida budget that would have sent $1 million to the Gasparilla Island State Park contained little information about how the money would have...

Fallout from Scott’s veto pen hits Gasparilla Island

June 26, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY JACK SHORT – Among the record setting number of items, worth a combined $461 million, that fell to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s veto pen, was a large appropriation for Gasparilla Island State...

Want to experience the estuaries up close?

June 26, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY JACK SHORT – Sometimes, to understand something, you have to be willing to dive right in. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is hoping that bringing people into close contact...