Jake Gipson and Matthew Wercinski, members of the University of Florida fishing team, won the National Guard FLW College Fishing Southeast Regional Championship on Sanford’s Lake Monroe last weekend. The two Niceville natives caught five bass weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces on the final day with a three-day total of 16 bass weighing 30 pounds [...]
The U.S. Forest Service, in partnership with the Florida Trail Association, recently acquired rights to establish a public access trail corridor on 930 acres of property in one of the largest – and most significant – donations ever received from a private landowner. The donation of the easement enables a 10-mile gap in the Florida [...]
If you see smoke near the Big Cypress National Preserve today in eastern Collier County, don’t panic.
Want to make sure you will catch fish next time you hit the water? Buy yourself a thermometer. Every species of fish has an optimal temperature at which they function. If it gets too hot, they slow down. …
A move by the state’s environmental agency to change water quality designations will burden taxpayers, let polluters off the hook and endanger Florida’s rivers and estuaries, one local environmental group said. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is proposing to add new, lower-grade water categories to its system of water quality requirements.
