NAPLES – The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is partnering with Collier County and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to complete a hydrologic project on Shell Island Road in order to restore tidal flushing in the Research Reserve’s mangrove forest.
Shell Island Road is located about 2.5 miles [...]
By Patricia Behnke
“Go green” taps us on the shoulder wherever we turn these days. We all know it’s a good thing when we see it, but do we really know what it means?
Any talk about going green inevitably leads to our carbon footprint — the amount of carbon dioxide our activities emit into the atmosphere. [...]
$280,000 already awarded through NOAA partnership in 2009
Alexandria, VA – May 7, 2009 - The FishAmerica Foundation, the conservation and research foundation of the American Sportfishing Association, today announced that grant monies for marine and anadromous sportfish habitat restoration are available for projects in the coastal United States, the Great Lakes region and the U.S. [...]