Biscayne National Park

Everglades, Biscayne National Parks Close In Advance Of Hurricane Dorian

Everglades National Park, which continues to clean up following a 2017 hurricane, and Biscayne National Park were closed and buttoned down Friday in advance of Hurricane Dorian, a particularly potent storm that was expected to reach Florida late Monday.

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By Kurt Repanshek - August 30th, 2019 4:13pm

Biscayne National Park Authorities Searching For Individual Who Shot Sea Turtle With Spear Gun

Someone shot a sea turtle with a spear gun, and Biscayne National Park authorities want to find the individual.

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By NPT Staff - June 26th, 2019 8:20pm

Biscayne National Park's "Spite Highway" Reopens To Hikers

You can walk a bit of the controversial past at Biscayne National Park, and enjoy nature, with the reopening of Spite Highway.

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By NPT Staff - May 20th, 2019 1:30am

Biscayne National Park Staff Battle Lionfish

Lionfish. Impossibly beautiful, incredibly invasive. Arriving on Florida's shores in the 20th century, the initial population influx of lionfish probably resulted from an accidental or intentional release from a hobbyist fish tank.

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By Erika Zambello - August 1st, 2024 1:24am

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Biscayne National Park Art Exhibit Celebrates Plants And Their Pollinators

The newest exhibit in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery features 30 detailed botanical illustrations of some of South Florida’s flowering plants and their pollinators. Pollinators, created by Tropical Botanic Artists, is now on display daily from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. through May 5, 2019. On Saturday, March 30, visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists at a free reception from 6 - 8 p.m.

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By Erika Zambello - February 2nd, 2019 1:30am

Legacy On The Land: A Black Couple Discovers Our National Inheritance And Tells Why Every American Should Care

Many national park enthusiasts can recite the history of the system or their favorite site by memory. They laud the conservationists and leaders who knew we must protect precious natural landscapes for future generations, they know the first national park (Yellowstone), and the year the National Park Service was founded (1916). But how many know of the contributions of people of color to our national parks?

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By Erika Zambello - January 29th, 2019 2:00am

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Collaboration Keeps National Parks In Florida Open For Visitors

A collaboration in Florida has formed to keep national parks there open and clean.

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By NPT Staff - January 16th, 2019 1:30am

Searching For History In Biscayne Bay

Somewhere in the waters of Biscayne National Park lies some of the ugly history of the early 19th century's slave trades. Long hours underwater, and some luck, could help archaeologists expand on the story of the Guerrero with its cargo of hundreds of slaves from Africa.

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By Erika Zambello - December 23rd, 2018 8:53am

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Sawfish Rescued In Biscayne National Park

Park rangers rescue a trapped sawfish from beneath a pile of lobster trap line.

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By Erika Zambello - December 9th, 2018 2:00am

Traveler's View: Politics Vs. Public Interest In National Parks

While the National Park Service Organic Act directs the National Park Service to be a guardian of the parks and the flora and fauna within them, politics don't always make that easy. Proof of that can be seen in Alaska, where the agency has done a complete reversal in trying to protect wolves, bears, coyotes and other predators from rampant hunting and trapping.

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 30th, 2018 9:15am

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