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Among the wildlife of the park are a number of threatened and endangered species: the Florida panther, wood stork, black bear, fox squirrel, and Everglades mink. The park also is home to white-tailed deer, raccoons, opossums, red-shouldered hawks, wild turkeys, owls, and vultures.
On 19 August 2024 the Florida Department of Environmental Protection announced plans [21] to build golf courses and 350-room lodges on state park lands. [22]In statements to the Tampa Bay Times and in posts to social media, the agency claimed that the construction of a golf course on vulnerable scrub habitat will be done in a way to "minimize habitat impacts".
Florida's 30A area is a stretch of white-sand beaches, Gulf of Mexico views, and quaint beach towns that runs for 24 miles along County Road 30A. The area, ...
Counties included in the South Section of the Great Florida Birding Trail. This is a list of parks and nature reserves that are locations in the South section of the Great Florida Birding Trail. Locations include sites in Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Martin, Monroe, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Sarasota counties. [1]
In 2019, a buildup of sargassum at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park near Miami got it knocked off a ranking of America's best beaches. A 2020 report by Monroe County officials stated that large ...
On some beaches in Florida, the "blobs" of crunchy, dry, brown stinky seaweed are fairly large. In one of our photo galleries , you'll see a small "mountain" of sargassum seaweed, and a black dog ...
Topsail Hill Preserve State Park is a 1,640-acre (6.6 km 2) Florida State Park located in Santa Rosa Beach, ten miles (16 km) east of Destin, off U.S. 98, in northwestern Florida. The address is 7525 W. Scenic Highway 30A. The park has over three miles of white sand beaches, as well as sand dunes, lakes, unique plant and animal life, and ...
Back in 2011, scientists noticed a huge blob of brown seaweed called sargassum forming a 5,000-mile belt from West Africa to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico—and has only grown bigger in the ...