Collier Citizen Environment News

An unusual visitor has been finding its way to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. A Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) has decided that the outside bathrooms are a great place to sleep during the day!

By state standards, beaches in Naples and across Collier County appear to be critically short on parking. Based on the state's standards, Naples beach and Park Shore beach should have 3,721 parking spots. They have 1,091 – meaning they're short ...

There was lots of beautiful scenery, if they had a moment to check it out. Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve hosted the second annual Adventure Race bright and early Saturday morning.

While most Americans associate turkey with Thanksgiving, turkeys are an everyday feature of life out in the Corkscrew Swamp. Notably different than their domesticated cousins (who found themselves “featured guests” at many of our homes this week), there are five ...

Located at the corner of U.S. 41 East and Riggs Road, five miles east of Collier Boulevard, Anna's Green Acres sits in an area of widely spaced homes and agricultural businesses, surrounded by vast tracts of 6L's fields. After the ...

The Gordon River Greenway Park has taken another step toward completion, with Collier County leaders approving a 60 percent-complete design for the $2.3 million project. The 124-acre park will meander through much of the unseen natural areas of Naples, close ...

Reports of otter sightings had me at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary for an early 8 a.m. walk. But instead of otters I came upon a family of barred owls. These owls are between 17-24 inches in length and weigh about 22 ...

Rains that saturated portions of Southwest Florida in recent weeks haven't created much of a disruption for the region's abundant wildlife, and it's been good for the endangered wood stork.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has teamed up with Florida State University for the past two years on a sawfish abundance study and tag-and-track project that is slowly piecing together the mysterious lives of the first marine fish to ...

On Oct. 13-15, Audubon of Florida chapter members, staff and friends gathered in Lake Mary for the 2011 Audubon Assembly. This annual meeting gathered conservation-minded people from around Florida to celebrate accomplishments, share conservation projects and ideas, and set Audubon’s ...

The North Collier Recycling Center is open after a scrap with residents of two communities. On Sept. 15, the contested 3,600-square-foot North Naples drop-off center opened its doors.

The Obama administration spent months reviewing whether National Parks Conservation Association regional director John Adornato and Defenders of Wildlife Florida director Laurie Macdonald ran afoul of a White House policy forbidding registered federal lobbyists from serving on federal advisory boards.

Naples Bay water quality is starting to show signs of a slow but only spotty recovery amid efforts to limit fertilizer use and improve the health of lakes that empty into it. The assessment is the most complete analysis yet ...

Lee County rules, adopted in 2010 but subject to a pending legal challenge by landowners and mining companies, would prohibit the mine; in Collier, no such prohibition exists and opponents fear Collier County won’t be as sensitive to concerns about ...

It’s that time of year in Southwest Florida when the occurrence of afternoon thunderstorms is almost as consistent as the rise and fall of the sun. The landscape turns green and water returns to the various wetlands around the region. ...