Big Cypress National Preserve

Big Cypress Elementary School students will have an addition to their natural habitat science classroom, thanks to the Education Foundation of Collier County. The school’s garden, which includes a pond, was granted funds for its new butterfly garden and hummingbird plants around its perimeter.  

It’s getting down to the wire for Big Cypress Market Place, a sprawling rural shopping and entertainment center about four miles east of Collier Boulevard on U.S. 41.  

The Xtreme Yard Makeover became an Xtreme eyesore. No one disputes that. Not Daphne Volcy, owner of the North Naples yard that received a much-publicized conservation-minded facelift in June. Not the project’s creator, Judy Haner, intergovernmental/outreach specialist for the South Florida Water...  

If you're up for an adventure, you don't have to go to Africa for a Safari. A one-tank trip to the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation will bring you face to face with some of the world's most dangerous animals.  

All of South Florida's national parks had reopened by Wednesday afternoon, reporting no major damage from Tropical Storm Fay. Everglades, Biscayne and Dry Tortugas national parks and the Big Cypress National Wildlife Preserve reported that operations, including campgrounds and boat ramps, were...  

Facing a bear? Florida black bears, which are protected as a threatened species, live mainly in six forested and swampland areas around the state, including the Ocala and Apalachicola national forests. The nearest one is the Big Cypress National Preserve.