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Lake Okeechobee Recovery Operations After Action Report — Our letter to the Army Corps of Engineers
On January 14, 2026, Friends of the Everglades submitted a formal letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding Recovery Operations, which involved discharges to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries beginning in December [...]
WATCH NOW — Live 2026 Florida legislative session preview
https://youtube.com/live/K7P2IeqFbHo?feature=share _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Today's livestream with Executive Director Eve Samples and Policy Director Gil Smart was a crash course in what to expect during Florida’s annual 60-day legislative session that begins Tuesday, January 13. The biggest [...]
Friends of the Everglades 2026 Florida Legislature: Pre-session report
Look around you. Does it appear Florida is developing too slowly? Key Legislators in Tallahassee seem to think so, and have introduced more than a dozen bills ahead of the 2026 Legislative session that could [...]
Florida misled the court — We’re setting the record straight
"Alligator Alcatraz' remains open — but our case against it is very much alive and moving forward. This week, Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a new brief with the [...]
Offshore drilling threatens the Everglades — Our letter to federal leaders
On December 15, 2025, Friends of the Everglades submitted a formal letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management opposing plans to open the Eastern Gulf of America to offshore oil and gas leasing. The [...]