Event Category: Public Outreach

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Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades – The Tenth Biennial Review 2024: Report Release Webinar The National Academies is holding a webinar to share key takeaways from a new report, Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Tenth Biennial Review – 2024. For 20 years, the National Academies has reviewed progress made under the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration […]

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Join us for the City of Cape Coral’s Water Conservation Town Hall on Monday, October 7, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in City Council Chambers, 1015 Cultural Park Boulevard. Learn about: Soil sensors and smart controllers How to qualify for a $500 rebate Irrigation schedule variances Water quality Preparing for the dry season City Staff […]

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When it comes to mitigating the causes and impacts of our changing climate, water is a superpower, and wetlands are particularly important.  But protecting wetlands has become ever more difficult.  Because water can be a powerful means of mitigating the causes and effects of our climate crisis, Lee County Right to Clean Water is doing […]

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Lee County Legislative Delegation will convene for its annual public meeting on Thursday, January 9th, 2025 at 9:00 AM and adjourn no later than 1:00 PM, or upon conclusion of the agenda and public comment. The purpose of the Delegation Meeting is to hear from the public and conduct local business, including a public hearing […]

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Thank you for your involvement in the Northern Everglades Basin Management Action Plans (BMAP) process. Individual public meetings will be held to discuss BMAP updates. WHAT:      Northern Everglades BMAPs Update Meetings WHERE:   Virtual (GoToWebinar) WHEN/HOW:  Caloosahatchee River and Estuary and Everglades West Coast BMAPs April 8, 2025, at 10 a.m. EDT. Registration is open for the meeting. After registering, you will […]

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Thank you for your involvement in the Northern Everglades Basin Management Action Plans (BMAP) process. Individual public meetings will be held to discuss BMAP updates. WHAT:      Northern Everglades BMAPs Update Meetings WHERE:   Virtual (GoToWebinar) WHEN/HOW:  Lake Okeechobee BMAP April 9, 2025, at 10 a.m. EDT. Registration is open for the meeting.  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email(s) with information […]

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The League of Women Voters of Lee County (LWVLee), Florida Right to Clean Water, and the SWFL RESET Center invite members and the public for an action-oriented discussion of Fundamental Rights and Citizen Initiatives, May 3rd, 2025, 9-11am, in person at the Collaboratory, 2031 Jackson Street, Fort Myers and virtually via Zoom.  (A Zoom link […]

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The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will host a public meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, to present the revised draft fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for waterbodies impaired for bacteria in the Everglades West Coast Basin. WHAT:    Public Meeting on Revised Draft FIB TMDLs for impaired waters in […]

TMDLs for waterbodies in the Everglades West Coast will be adopted in Rule 62-304.810, Florida Administrative Code.  DEP requests that all comments be received by Oct. 31, 2025. Public comments will also be accepted during the meeting and can be submitted via email to [email protected] or by mail to:   Florida Department of Environmental Protection Attn: […]

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Joe Cavanaugh

Event Description:  The smalltooth sawfish is a critically endangered species of ray whose central artery for survival courses through the Caloosahatchee River. Four of the five hotspot areas for the Charlotte Harbor Estuary Unit of critical habitat are within the Caloosahatchee. This is where the species pups and those pups spend their early years maturing […]