The following are excerpts from a message sent by Matt Schwartz, Executive Director of South Florida Wildlands Association: Until Friday, November 25th, 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is accepting comments on a plan to expand the National Wildlife Refuge […]
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Ellen Peterson: Fallen Warrior
Ellen Peterson, 87, of Estero, Florida passed away on October 14th, 2011. She was a supporter of Earth First!, lending us spiritual support as well as the use of her land for our camps and roadshows. Ellen is a spiritual and political […]
Continue readingSeminole Tribe of Florida fights FPL proposal; Sierra Club beats rock mine in the Everglades
By Earth First! Journal In a recent legal challenge to Hendry County’s approval of re-zoning land for a newly proposed FPL power plant in primary panther habitat, attorneys with the Seminole Tribe of Florida demanded a Writ of Certiorari quashing the County […]
Continue readingA Bad Wind Blowing: resisting industrial wind turbines from the Everglades to the Boundary Mountains
By Panagioti Tsolkas, Earth First! Journal editorial collective In a Palm Beach Post article from earlier this year: A St. Louis company, Wind Capital Group, says they hopes to build Florida’s first wind farm, on thousands of acres of sugar land east […]
Continue readingFPL Power Plant Proposal Aims for the Heart of Panther Habitat
By Panagioti Tsolkas, Earth First! Journal According to a letter sent on May 2, 2011 by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, a new power plant proposal has begun the permitting process for a site located in Hendry County—primary habitat of Florida […]
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