National Parks

Washington, D.C. –

Beginning on Thanksgiving this year, Everglades National Park opened Joe Bay, and adjacent Snag Bay, to the public for the first time in more than 30 years. The area will allow non-motorized boating and become the park's first catch-and-release fishing area.

When traveling in Miami on U.S. 41, also called Tamiami Trail, 8th Street or "Calle Ocho," as it's affectionately known by the locals, you can easily feel that you're in a never-ending urban landscape. But if you continue west and cross Krome Avenue, you realize that you have arrived in a different, and often underrated, side of Miami.

Every visit to Biscayne National Park is an adventure filled with charm, wonder and beauty. This is no surprise. Visitors have come to national parks for over a century in search of such things. This year is the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.

August 25 is Founder’s Day for the National Park Service, when it turns 100 years old. To celebrate, the federal agency and its partners invite the general public to attend a free birthday party at the Coral Gables Museum.

Last week, we discussed the history of wetlands drainage and the need for restoration. Today, Everglades restoration is in full swing. Since former Florida Gov. Bob Graham announced the Save Our Everglades Program in 1983, there have been many hurdles to overcome. This initiative made the first formal call for an interagency effort to restore th...

Biscayne National Park got 45 acres larger overnight last week. In lieu of a complicated science fiction plot, all that was needed to increase the size of the park in an instant was a simple yes vote from the Miami-Dade County Commission. Which it got.

Within the crevice of the Everglades there resides Flamingo, where fishermen and campers hearts are content. Nature with its own presence affects mankind to blush with their ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ that speaks the astonishing enchantment that the ecosystem has accumulated through natural disasters and nature’s role-playing inhabitants.

Longtime visitors to Flamingo in Everglades National Park have witnessed the gradual and unfortunate decline of the physical condition of the district's facilities after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005. Many of these visitors have been waiting more than a decade to see some improvements in this vital fishing outpost they have grown to love.