Woodrat
A soon-to-be-released children’s book about the endangered Key Largo woodrat may foreshadow actual events.
Posted - Friday, September 05, 2008 06:00 AM EDT
Environment
Seventeen acres of land burned on Big Pine Key this week, but no worries — it was all under control. The Nature Conservancy performed the planned, or prescribed, burn Wednesday and Thursday in its 20-acre preserve along Key Deer Boulevard — without protest from environmental groups that objected to a similar burn planned earlier this year by the National Key Deer Refuge.
Posted - Saturday, August 30, 2008 07:43 AM EDT
Tiny white blooms appear on Spanish stoppers, a native species of small tree, around this time of year.
In many places, Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer, or at least a strong indication that the warm season is winding down.
Posted - Friday, August 29, 2008 07:00 AM EDT
The Key Largo woodrat is not the kind of rodent most people think of when they hear the word 'rat.' It's more like a mouse.
A soon-to-be-released children's book about the endangered Key Largo woodrat may foreshadow actual events. "Woodrat Jill" by local writer Nicky Laak tells the story of Jill, a woodrat introduced into the North Key Largo hardwood hammock after being born in a born in a zoo program.
Posted - Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:11 AM EDT
President Theodore Roosevelt put a feather in his cap just over 100 years ago by signing into law the establishment of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge.
Posted - Saturday, August 16, 2008 07:37 AM EDT
- Building points now have dollar value
For years, Keys residents have been able to buy vacant lots and donate them to the county for conservation to increase their chances of getting a building permit. It's a system in which people accrue points in order to build.
Posted - Saturday, August 09, 2008 10:24 AM EDT
- Florida Forever to expand to waterfront?
During the 2008 legislative session, state Rep. Stan Mayfield sponsored a bill that could tie together the best intentions of a statewide effort to preserve working waterfront with a proven land acquisition program.
Posted - Saturday, August 09, 2008 10:24 AM EDT
- Go on lobster patrol with FWC
Click to see video report from on board an FWC patrol boat
Head out on the water
Posted - Saturday, August 09, 2008 10:24 AM EDT
- Electric car for sale in Marathon
Chuck Meier, co-owner of Sea Air Land Technologies, says electric vehicles are the wave of the future and he doesn't want Keys residents to miss the boat.
Posted - Saturday, August 02, 2008 07:01 AM EDT
- 99 baby turtles hatch at Fort Zach
Baby loggerhead turtles hatched this week on the beach at Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park in Key West for the first time since 2003.
Posted - Friday, August 01, 2008 12:19 PM EDT
