The Everglades restoration is a 50-50 cost-share project between the state of Florida and the Army Corps. More: What will 'wilderness' designation mean for the Big Cypress, swamp buggy riders?

into Everglades National Park, and into the vital estuaries along Florida’s southwest coast. Big Cypress is remarkable for its temperate and tropical mixture of species found across five major ...

The Florida Everglades, described by writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas as "a river of grass," are comprised of sawgrass marsh punctuated by cypress swamps and mangrove forests – an ecosystem ...

Big Cypress is the nation’s first national preserve (established in 1974) and offers more than 700,000 acres of wetlands to explore by foot, kayak or swamp buggy. The vast landscape, north of and ...

Hunters, swamp buggy enthusiasts ... biodiverse ecosystems in North America, the Big Cypress consists of 720,000 acres and is tied to Everglades National Park and the historic Everglades system.

The South Florida Water Management District reported overall nesting down although snowy egrets, South Florida's dominant ...

Everglades and Biscayne national parks also ... through 730,000 acres that include hardwood hammocks and freshwater cypress swamp. Whereas national parks have stricter rules to protect threatened ...

Now environmental advocates are worried the multi-billion-dollar, multi-decade Everglades restoration may be in jeopardy.