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12 applicants eye single spot on water management board
CHAD GILLIS /Naples Daily News /January 23, 200
Thirteen Southwest Floridians are vying to be this region's representative on the South Florida Water Management District governing board, a powerful but unpaid council that has been short one member for more than three months. ...

Rock shortage raises road costs
LARRY HANNAN /Naples Daily News /January 22, 200
It is a situation that seems guaranteed to pit environmentalists against the development industry. ...

25,000 homes in ranch plans
Dick Hogan /The News-Press /Jan 25, 2005
The owners of McDaniel Ranch want to build a community the size of Lehigh Acres in an area just north of the Big Cypress National Preserve in Hendry County. ...

Questions raised in panther case
DENES HUSTY III /The News-Press /Jan 27, 2005
A civil rights group is alleging that some defendants might have been pressured into entering pleas in a Collier County animal cruelty case. ...

Annexation deal could add land to Corkscrew Sanctuary
ERIC STAATS /Naples Daily News /January 29, 200
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is on the verge of an agreement that will expand its boundaries by thousands of acres by 2010. The board of directors of the National Audubon Society, which runs the 11,000-acre sanctuary off Immokalee Road, is expected to vote this weekend in Naples to approve a phased deal to annex the 2,775-acre Panther Island Mitigation Bank. ...

Gift boosts Corkscrew sanctuary
DENES HUSTY III /The News-Press /Jan 29, 2005
The National Audubon Society is getting a big birthday present during its centennial this year: 2,778 acres of restored wetlands to be added to the environmental group's Big Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Collier County, compliments of local developers. ...

SOUTHWEST COAST

State manatee count up by more than 600 over last year
CHAD GILLIS /Naples Daily News /January 29, 200
State biologists counted the second-highest statewide tally of West Indian manatees ever over the last week, recording 3,142 sea cows in Florida waters. ...

Charlotte could join Lee in Babcock buy
JOHN HAUGHEY /Naples Daily News /January 25, 200
Charlotte County commissioners could adopt today a resolution that states joining Lee County in the $480 million purchase of Babcock Ranch is" necessary and in the best interest of the public." ...

State objections to Babcock buy strike sour note
JOHN HAUGHEY /Sun Herald /01/27/05
Babcock Ranch remains on the Forever Florida Fund's acquisition "A" list, but supporters saystate objections to the deal sound like a "B"-movie sound track.After two state bids inthree years were rejected because they were 20-percent below the ranch's selling price, thestate scuttled an agreement Tuesday by claiming FFF money cannot be used in an eminentdomain purchase. ...

Babcock Ranch sale still in play
BARRY MILLMAN /sun-herald /01/30/05
When lawyers representing the heirs of Fred Babcock rejected Florida's latest bid for hislegacy of land and walked away from the negotiating table, they were playing the latest,but not likely last card in their hand. ...

Landowner asks county for sweeter deal
ERIC STAATS /Naples Daily News /January 11, 200
For a decade, environmental advocates have pushed for preservation of a parcel where a developer wants to build high-rise condos on the edge of one of the county's natural jewels. ...

Flocks of birds arrive on Marco
BILLY BRUCE /Naples Daily News /January 12, 200
Visitors from Ohio and Michigan aren't the only ones flocking to Marco these days to enjoy Florida's warm winter weather. Dozens of feathered snowbirds are arriving on the island as well. ...

Turtle rescued in 2004 released into Gulf of Mexico
DIANNA SMITH /Naples Daily News /January 27, 200
The Gumperts managed to squeeze their way through the crowd long enough to catch a glimpse of the turtle before it began its journey into the Gulf. They were surprised by what they saw. ...

LAKE OKEECHOBEE

Glades reservoir proposal encounters some opposition
CURTIS MORGAN /Miami Herald /Jan. 25, 2005
A new science report questions whether there will be enough water left to restore the Everglades as suburbia eats at its edges, and it suggests reconsidering some touchy places to store it: Namely, Lake Okeechobee and the vast sugar and farm fields south of the lake, locations already neck-deep in water and growth disputes. ...

Hurricanes of 2004 Extreme natural event
Henry Dean /News Gazette /Jan 2005
For years to come, when extreme natural events are discussed, the hurricane season of 2004will rank with Hurricane Donna, the Mississippi River floods of 1993 and San Francisco’s WorldSeries Earthquake of 1989. This year’s hurricane season brought into focus the origins ofthe South Florida Water Management District and the reasons it exists: To first and foremostprovide flood control and relief. ...

EVERGLADES RESTORATION

Study: Buy more land, quickly, for Everglades restoration
CORALIE CARLSON /Miami Herald /Jan. 25, 2005
MIAMI - State and federal officials should buy more land, and do so quickly, in order to restore the Everglades before the property becomes developed or too expensive, according to a report released Monday. ...

Elevate the Trail: RAISE ROAD THROUGH GLADES AS PART OF RESTORATION
Opinion /Miami Herald /Jan. 26, 2005
Anyone who has ever driven Interstate 10 east to Pensacola from New Orleans can understand why the resurrection of a proposal to rebuild a portion of the Tamiami Trail as an elevated roadway through the Everglades is such good news. ...

Arsenic level in aquifer exceeds state limits
JAMIE HENLINE /Naples Daily News /January 31, 200
High arsenic levels in a water storage well in Estero prompted Lee County Utilities to seek special permission to exceed state limits on arsenic concentrations in water until January 2006. ...



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