Big Cypress National Preserve

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Jay Z and Beyoncé love Florida. So much, in fact, they're planning to spend their family vacation exploring the 65,755-sqaure-mile peninsula that 19 million of us call home. According to Contact Music, after Jigga and Coldplay wrap their respective world tours, the hip-hop power couple is teaming ... More >>

Three Florida Panthers Killed By Cars in Three Days

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Hog Huntin' in the Glades

A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

Pearls Before Pigs

A haywire hunting trip in the Everglades for an elusive oinker.

Clyde-Lovin’ in the Swamps

Land Grab

We ask questions and a historic land battle is won

Swamp Treat

Clyde Butcher's love affair with the Everglades is visual bliss

Butcher in the Bushes

A legendary photographer’s vision of the ´Glades

Renaissance Swamp Man

Lucky Cole likes nudes. Who doesn't?

We Like Big Boats

Wear Waders

Wild and Crazy

Guess what happens when an eccentric ecologist and a couple of feisty backwoods boys claim that a rare Florida panther is on the attack

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Ecological Politics

UM's Larry Brand flouts the grant system, pays the price

The Big Cypress Deal

The cover story is conservation, but the Bush boys have their hands in the taxpayers' pockets again

Through the Looking Grass

Slide over for the man who made tall grass beautiful for the camera

Slaughter Alley

Big dead cats in the middle of the road -- lots of them

Destiny's Child

The battle over Homestead is déjà vu all over again

Collision Course

On one side are politicians and influential business interests. On the other are environmentalists and some very wealthy private citizens. In the middle is Homestead Air Force Base. Dead ahead: An explosive confrontation.

Forcing Out HABDI

One of South Florida's oldest families is nearing a come-from-behind victory in the battle for the Homestead Air Base

Swamp and Circumstance

Planners hope the Natural System Model can help restore the Everglades. But will it survive politics?

Close Encounters of the Swamp Kind

If the customs and legends of Loop Road seem strange, you probably don't live there

Crude Motives

Members of the Collier family want to explore for oil in the nature preserve they helped create

Our Swamp Beautiful

Really for the Birds

A weird government plan to help save an endangered species winds up threatening to defile the Everglades

Bureaucrats Play "Skim the Cat"

Money from Florida's best-selling license plate was supposed to help protect the panther. Instead it's going for swamp buggies and butterfly gardens.

Skimming the Surface

Airboaters say they are friends of the Everglades. Park rangers and environmentalists beg to differ.

Creature Feature

Move over, Sasquatch. Beat it, Bigfoot. It's time you met South Florida's own: The great Skunk Ape.

Hungry Is the Hunter

Lawmen, developers, and environmentalists have made Everglades hunters feel like an endangered species

"It'll Never Get Off the Ground"

With nothing to show after four years but bitterness and bickering, the plan to turn Homestead Air Force Base into a commercial airport has gone from national model to national embarrassment

Right in the Middle of Nowhere

Anyone who thinks Dade Corners is just a gas station probably thinks the Everglades is just a little wet spot west of Miami

Not Cleared for Takeoff

If a national coalition of environmental groups has its way, Homestead Air Force Base won't be handed over to private developers just yet

Letters

A Brief History of the Miccosukees

The Last of the Indian Wars

The fight may be about houses in the Everglades, but the battle is about Miccosukee independence by paula park

GET THE KIDS INSIDE! BOLT THE DOOR!

Toxic sewage spawns swamp monsters; officials say no cause for alarm

Hearts and Mayans

Jack Leonard has opened his South Dade home to Guatemalan migrants. What more can he do?

Letters - Part I