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St. Johns River Bartram Frolic returns to Palatka | Palatka Daily News, Palatka, Florida

History came alive Monday and Tuesday as Putnam County second graders learned about explorer William Bartram and his friends, like The Long Warrior and trader Job Wiggens from the historical figure ....

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Old canal gets new life

November is National Native American Heritage Month. To showcase that month, here is a story underscoring how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked with Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe to establish a self-sustaining fishery. It is but one example of how the Service collaborates with tribes across the country. ....

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12 Eastern Indigo Snakes Released In Northern Florida


Reptiles Magazine
The 10 year captive breeding and release effort has thus far released 81 snakes.
May 26, 2021
The Nature Conservancy announced today that it has released 12 Eastern indigo snakes (
Drymarchon couperi) in northern Florida’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve (ABRP) in Bristol, in an effort to return the native reptile to the region that it has long since disappeared from. The conservancy, in conjunction with the the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens’ Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation (OCIC), the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Zoo Atlanta, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Welaka National Fish Hatchery, The Orianne Society, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Southern Company through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), and the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida, has been releasing these apex predators into the region for the last five years, as part of a 10 year pro ....

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