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  • $625 Million Approved for Everglades Restoration

    $625 Million Approved for Everglades Restoration

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced House Bill 1379 and signed more than $625 Million in state funding for Everglades restoration and water-quality improvement projects.

  • Path to Restoration: Wetter Everglades

    Path to Restoration: Wetter Everglades

    Wetter Everglades on Path to Restoration By Chrystian Tejedor, Florida International University Looking south from bridges carrying Tamiami Trail over the Florida Everglades in Miami-Dade County, you could have seen something that had not happened in 100 years.

  • $200 Million Appropriation for Everglades Restoration

    $200 Million Appropriation for Everglades Restoration

    Keep Florida Fishing®’s (KFF) Kellie Ralston, who serves as Southeast Fisheries Policy Director for the American Sportfishing Association, provided the following statement related to U.S. House of Representatives and Senate appropriators allotting $200 million to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Everglades restoration as part of their year-end spending deal.

  • Support in Congress for Everglades Restoration as Boating/Angling Community Rallies

    Support in Congress for Everglades Restoration as Boating/Angling Community Rallies

    With federal appropriations season fully underway, nearly a dozen boating and fishing organizations recently wrote to Senate appropriators and encouraged lawmakers to continue the long-time support for the protection and restoration of America’s Everglades by providing robust funding for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). Everglades restoration is a top NMMA advocacy priority and the association played a leading role in drafting the letter.

  • Compromise yields gift for the Everglades: 78 billion gallons of cleaner water

    Compromise yields gift for the Everglades: 78 billion gallons of cleaner water

    Water full of algae laps along the Sewell’s Point shore on the St. Lucie River under an Ocean Boulevard bridge

  • Sportfishing Industry Applauds Senate Passage of Water Resources Development

    Sportfishing Industry Applauds Senate Passage of Water Resources Development

    Alexandria, VA – September 16, 2016 - The American Sportfishing Association (ASA) and Keep Florida Fishing® commend the U.S. Senate for passing the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (WRDA), which provides essential funding for the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP), as well as infrastructure and other habitat and water quality projects throughout the nation.