Considering Visiting Lake Okeechobee? With its incredible size and abundance of nature, this lake and vicinity might become your favorite.
Florida’s blessed with some great lakes, but none are so impressive as the greatest of all. Here's how to enjoy a scenic drive around Lake Okeechobee.
Florida, endeared as "The Sunshine State," is an enigma. It is more than stunning beaches, amusement parks, and parties. Here are a few Florida fun facts
On the northern edge of the lake of the same name, Okeechobee is a city with a lot to love. I’ll start with one of America’s largest freshwater water bodies. ... Read more
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Photo taken in 2023 of the sunset over the mighty Lake Okeechobee in Southern Florida. Lake Okeechobee, also known as “big water” in the Seminole Native American language, holds the distinction of being the largest freshwater lake in the state of Florida.
Exploring and chronicling a restored river in the heart of Florida The Kissimmee Valley, which includes the Kissimmee chain of lakes and Kissimmee River, covers an area from Orlando to Lake Okeechobee. The headwaters and grand gateway to the Everglades, the area is the domain of the alligator and bald eagle, snail kite and spoonbill, stretching more than 100 miles through central Florida. Between 1960 and 1971, the Army Corps of Engineers straightened and diverted the river's flow to control persistent flooding. These alterations shortened the length of the Kissimmee, significantly reduced wildlife populations, and created a lucrative real estate market that further threatened native species. In 1992, Congress acted to restore the river to its original flow. In the spring of 2007, Doug Alderson joined an expedition down the Kissimmee chain of lakes and the newly restored river. Chronicled nightly on local television, the group witnessed firsthand the recovering bird populations, spotted otters, turtles, alligators, and other wildlife, and revealed to thousands of viewers the hidden beauty of this part of Florida. In New Dawn for the Kissimmee River, Alderson uses this twelve-day paddling excursion as a thread to explore the history and ecology of the region, while highlighting the most successful restoration project of its kind in the world, the model for the overall Everglades restoration plan.
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/49718 Local call number: SM0998 Title: Fanny Stuart and Susie Tiger, Indian Prairie near Lake Okeechobee, Florida Date: May 1919 Physical descrip: 1 glass photonegative - b&w - 5 x 7 in. Series Title: John K. Small Collection Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. [email protected]
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/50114 Local call number: SM1992 Title: Unidentified Seminole men on horseback: Indian Prairie near Lake Okeechobee, Florida Date: April 1924 Physical descrip: 1 nitrate photonegative - b&w - 5 x 7 in. Series Title: John K. Small Collection Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. [email protected]
Certain canines are now working for wildlife as conservation dogs, and are becoming popular in the wildlife & conservation field.
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Land for Salein the Vikings Prairie Area North of Okeechobee County,Lake Okeechobee Close to The Kissimmee Prairie Preserve Park.Why Do People Buy and Liv
Get away from the stress of modern life with some of our beautiful and serene lakes.
Every fisherman needs a trip to Lake Okeechobee at some point in their lives.
Digital ID: 1259999. 'Hotel' in Pahokee, Lake Okeechobee, Florida, living quarters for migratory agricultural workers, February 1941.. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. February 1941 Notes: Original negative #: 57210-D Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Florida. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1259999 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
A man-made disaster has turned a Florida lake into a toxic mess. The Weather Channel investigates the story behind this growing problem.
Also known as the Smuggler's Run, the Florida Mini-Loop has more to offer than its rich history of scofflaws.
Archaeologists define the Archaic Period in southern Florida as lasting from around 7500 BC to around 500 BC. ((Florida Division of Historical Resources.
Phillips and Jordan will start work in November under fixed-price $80-million first phase of the A-2 Reservoir south of Florida's Lake Okeechobee.
The Belle Glade culture is an archaeological culture that existed from 1000 BC - 1700 AD in the area about Lake Okeechobee.
The Untold Story of Lake Okeechobee
An enormous algae bloom turned Florida’s Treasure Coast a gnarly shade of green last week, and now we know just what that goopy nightmare looks like from space. On July 2nd, NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite snapped some weirdly impressionistic images of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, in which you can see billions of green…
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), passed in 2000, included a series of 68 projects that were supposed to be completed within thirty years. Most of the significant features to reduce discharges from Lake Okeechobee and rehydrate the Everglades were to be completed within the first twenty years. Instead, a lack of funding and political...
The St. Lucie River will get 323 million gallons a day.
Most Florida visitors have never seen a sugar cane field, but did you know Florida leads the nation in the production of sugar cane?
A New York court decision that reinstates a federal rule allowing the unrestricted movement of polluted water is being criticized by environmentalists who say it lets South Florida water managers continue dumping polluted water into the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee.
Photograph taken in west Texas shows a tornado funnel and lightning bolt alongside an oil rig?
