Author: Jordyn White

  • Biden’s $1.1 B Everglades Restoration Plan

    Biden’s $1.1 B Everglades Restoration Plan

    The Florida Everglades, a vast ecosystem that nearly covered 11,000 square miles1 of Southern Florida, was given another chance when the Biden administration granted $1.1 billion of a $14 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill 7 towards its restoration. At over a billion dollars, it is the largest single investment in the Everglades7. This funding is part…

  • The Florida Black Bear: Living Bear Aware

    The Florida Black Bear: Living Bear Aware

    Featured image from Unsplash / Kalen Kemp. Bears by the Numbers With an estimated population of just over 4,000, the threatened Florida Black Bear is outnumbered by humans by a scale of over 5,000 to 1. Key areas in Central Florida, South Florida, & the Panhandle have the largest portions of the bear population, with…