January 2017 – Biscayne National Park launches a new season of Park After Dark events this month at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center with evening campfires, s’mores for the kids, and telescopes for star-gazing. Bring a picnic dinner and enjoy the park after dark on Saturday January 21 during the first of four monthly programs. Also
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January 2017 – Sandee Harraden is a local wildlife photographer with a national reputation and a new show at Big Cypress National Preserve – Journey Across the Greater Everglades – featuring the wildlife of the Greater Everglades. You can meet the artist and see the show at an opening reception on Saturday January 14 from 1 to 3
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December 2016 – The City of Homestead’s National Park Trolley is back for another season, with free transportation linking downtown Homestead to two national parks — Biscayne and Everglades National Parks. The trolley runs every weekend from now through April 30. For complete details and a schedule of trolleys, visit the city of Homestead’s website.
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December 2017 – Rotary Club of Key West and the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys are supporting on-site education programs at Dry Tortugas National Park this year with a Vision 20/20 grant from the foundation. The SFNPT and Rotary have been funding student trips to the park since 2005, and jointly helped the park
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December 2016 – Looking for a new place to fish in Everglades National Park? Check out remote Joe Bay in the northeast corner of Florida Bay. The park has re-opened the bay to no-motor boating and catch-and-release fishing after a closure of 30+ years to protect crocodiles. The good news: The crocs are doing better, to
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November 2016 – Acclaimed South Florida photographer Clyde Butcher and his family are supporting outdoor science education programs in the Big Cypress National Preserve this year with a donation of $6,500 to South Florida National Parks Trust. The donation represents the proceeds from this year’s Halloween swamp walks behind the family’s Big Cypress Gallery on
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By Annie Farrell Have you ever wanted to visit four national parks in one day? Well, now you can. “This Land Is Your Land: A Second Century for America’s National Parks” is an exhibit at the Coral Gables Museum that allows visitors to dive into what makes South Florida’s four national park sites so remarkable.
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October 31, 2016 – Congratulations to Big Cypress National Preserve, the first national park east of Colorado to earn an International Dark Sky designation. Big Cypress is one of the few places left in South Florida where you can see the Milky Way. Join us this season for one of the preserve’s monthly “star” parties
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August 8, 2016 – The National Park Service has selected Margaret L. Goodro to lead Biscayne National Park as its next superintendent. Goodro replaces Brian Carlstrom, who left the position in November 2015 to serve in a Deputy Associate Director position in the Washington, D.C. office of the National Park Service. “Margaret is a proven
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July 6, 2016 – Everglades National Park and the South Florida National Parks Trust (SFNPT) have won a $250,000 historic preservation grant to restore the park’s iconic Flamingo Visitor Center after a six-week national voting campaign, the SFNPT announced today. The Partners in Preservation grant awarded by American Express and the National Trust for Historic
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