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Resources from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Florida Forest Service continue to provide assistance in the suppression efforts on the Cypress Camp Trail Fire.

Resources from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Florida Forest Service continue to provide assistance in the suppression efforts on the Cypress Camp Trail Fire.

The Cypress Camp Trail wildfire is currently 7,600 acres with 10% containment and the source of the fire remains under investigation.

After nearly three days, a brush fire off Interstate 75 has grown to nearly 7,000 acres at a national park, leading authorities to caution motorists.

A Texas oil company seeking to develop seven oil drilling pads and access roads in Big Cypress National Preserve has withdrawn a permit application filed more than a year ago

Congress members wrote to the Department of the Interior asking for a denial of two oil drilling permits within the Big Cypress National Preserve.

WLRN Racoon Point was constructed in the 1970s and is one of two oil drilling sites in Big Cypress. Burnett Oil wants to expand drilling in the preserve to two additional locations. A Texas company conducting controversial oil exploration in the Big Cypress National Preserve wants to expand operations and hopes to start drilling by 2022. According to applications submitted to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection last week, Burnett Oil Co. has asked to construct two new roads and d...