Erika Hoopes, spokesperson for the Big Cypress National Preserve, said a fire that ignited on Feb. 22 grew to just more than 35,000 acres on Monday, March 2 with a 53% containment as of March 3. The ...
Big Cypress National Preserve cuts a swath of 729,000 acres across south Florida. It is one of the largest preserves in the nation, home to more than 350 species of birds and 40 species of mammals ...
State Route 29 will be closed Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. for firefighting activity. According to the National Interagency ...
Simply called "the Big Cypress" by Gladesmen and older folks in south Florida, the national preserve was established in 1974.
An active brushfire burning since the weekend has grown to 2,600 acres in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Hendry County is 95 percent contained as of Sunday morning. The fire — labeled the West ...
Florida law enforcement agencies are cracking down on immigration, with thousands of encounters and arrests reported. Data on arrests varies between state dashboards and local law enforcement reports, ...
With all of the attention on iguanas, pythons and bears lately, we thought this would be a good time to remind you that Florida's most famous animal, the alligator, is alive and well. One question we ...
On a recent afternoon, Carl Jackson and his family were hunting for pythons on a dirt road about 30 miles east of Naples in Big Cypress National Preserve. Jackson said he turned his truck around to ...
The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere. A composite image ...
200+ pound python bagged in Florida swamp A python weighing over 200 pounds was recently bagged at a swamp in Florida. A contracted hunter working deep in the swamps of Big Cypress National Preserve ...
A python hunter caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The 16-foot, 10-inch female python was captured in Big Cypress National Park with the help of ...