When a 16.5-foot Burmese python - carrying a full clutch of eggs - was found along the L-67 levee south of the Tamiami Trail, it was a sure sign that hiking in the Everglades is no longer a walk in the park. According to a news story in the Miami Herald, South Florida Water Management [...]

It might be just what the Florida Trail needs to guarantee a route north from Big Cypress.  In Florida Sportsman’s online magazine, Karl Wickstrom proposes the concept of turning the 180,000 acre land purchase from US Sugar into Florida’s largest reserve, the River of Grass Restoration Reserve, open to paddling and hiking, fishing and seasonal [...]