Lee Nathurst News Today

Nils Richter docked the boat. He climbed to the landing area on Lofton Island off downtown Fort Myers. Crews over the past couple of weeks have cleared all the non-native trees and plants and three damaged royal palm trees. Gone are hundreds of Australian pines. Visible instead: mulch from the downed trees and the few remaining palms and a strangle fig tree. “Now, you can see the land,” Richter said. “Now, we can determine what we want to do with it. We want to make it an amenity for down...