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Big Cypress National Preserve

National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 251 | Speak Up For The Swamp

An image of a swamp in Big Cypress National Preserve, located in Florida

It’s been six years since an oil company headed out across the marl prairie of Big Cypress National Preserve with vehicles weighing as much as 30 tons to search for oil reserves. Signs of that work continue to show on the prairie, despite stringent National Park Service requirements for restoring the landscape after the searching was completed.

House Appropriations Bill Slashes Interior, National Park Service Funding

A spending bill designed to "rightsize" federal agency spending that was approved by the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday would cut the National Park Service's upcoming budget by 12.5 percent, resulting in the loss of more than 1,000 park staff and reduce the agency's maintenance and historic preservation funding, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.

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