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Whiticar Boat Works is a household name for many people in South Florida. For more than 60 years, the Whiticar family has remained a trusted brand in the sportfish boat building industry, made all the more memorable by its start…
The Florida legislature is about to get a 700-year-old philosophy lesson. William of Ockham’s kernel of common sense from the 14th century–the simpler of two solutions is probably the better one–applies perfectly to the 21st century marvel we’re designing to…
Lawmakers cannot endorse an EAA reservoir plan that purposely violates federal water quality standards. That’s the warning that Friends of the Everglades (FOE), the Miami-based conservation group founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, publicly sent to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection last…
You’ll have to excuse Florida Sportsman founder and editor-in-chief Karl Wickstrom for being blunt about the destruction of our estuaries. Blame a lifetime of listening to excuses and lies about it. That gives you 500 billion. The number of gallons of poisonous…
Merry Christmas to everyone Bullsugar’s mission has touched this year: To the staff at SFWMD who deserve our respect for working in good faith on a plan to restore the Everglades, Florida, and our estuaries… To the Glades communities who deserve our…
Avid fisherman and South Florida resident Frank Higginbotham claims to have never won anything before this, so we were more than happy to help change his luck. As the winner of the Engel 65 high-performance cooler with custom Bullsugar.org pad,…
The Everglades Foundation says it has an alternative EAA reservoir design it wants to share with the South Florida Water Management District. In a letter to SFWMD executive director Ernie Marks, Everglades Foundation CEO Eric Eikenberg offered to share a…
Senate President Joe Negron, whose leadership on stopping the discharges and getting clean water to the Everglades has helped get us closer than we’ve ever been to a solution, stepped up this week. In a letter to SFWMD’s Ernie Marks Negron praised…
On Tuesday, the SFWMD presented 4 “alternatives” for the EAA Reservoir that have one thing in common: they won’t work. We’re not suggesting that the district staff assigned to this project are incompetent or impolite. They seem to be working…
These are amazing places we’re fighting for. The Caloosahatchee nourishes an estuary that supports one of the nation’s fastest growing economies. People from around the world are drawn to the water here, the beaches, the fisheries…and thousands never leave. More than…
