From the Department of Environmental Protection:
tallahassee – In order to continue to provide high quality visitor services and affordable nature-based recreation, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Florida Park Service will implement a modest fee increase beginning Wednesday, July 1, 2009, in conjunction with the state’s fiscal calendar.
“Florida’s award-winning state parks provide inexpensive, high [...]
FWC - The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has announced the successful launch of the new gopher tortoise permitting system. The new system went online in late April, and by the end of May, the FWC had issued more than 100 permits using the paperless system.
“We made several permit types available online in [...]
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will use new permit-application procedures this year to resolve past permit issuance problems for the highly popular statewide alligator harvest program.
In Phase I of the new process, applications will be accepted for a random drawing from 10 a.m. (EDT) June 1 through 11:59 p.m. (EDT) June 15. [...]
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will be accepting applications June 1-30 to be included in a random drawing for quota permits to hunt on wildlife management areas (WMAs) next season.
On many WMAs, quota permits are required for hunters wishing to hunt during specified periods of the general gun season as well as [...]
FWC - A pregnant captive cougar named Sierra is back in captivity, safe and sound, after a 24-hour walkabout in the Poinciana area of Osceola County. She returned Sunday around dusk to the location where she escaped a day earlier.
Monday morning, the handlers for Jungle Adventures, the permitted owner of the cat, took Sierra to [...]
FWC - The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) would like to clarify the dates for this year’s special-opportunity hunt application period.
Incorrect application dates were advertised in the April and May issues of Woods ‘N Water magazine and in the 2008-09 Florida Hunting Regulations handbook. The correct application period in which to apply [...]