This file photo from Oct. 30, 2019, shows an alligator prowling the waters in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.
BONDUEL, Wis. A “very docile” alligator is on the loose in Brown County, and the zoo he’s called home for years is asking the public for help finding him.
Doc’s Zoo, an animal sanctuary located 18 miles west of Green Bay, said on Facebook that one of its alligators, Rex, has been missing since Saturday.
Rex is “very old” and has severe arthritis in his jaws that makes it difficult for him to open his mouth more than an inch, according to the zoo’s post. The gator was described as “typically very docile.” Doc’s Zoo said Rex isn’t a danger to the public.
NPCA sent the following letter to Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 12th, 2021.
We write to urge you to support the nomination of Radhika Fox as Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Our national parks are symbols of conservation, historic preservation and our shared heritage. In the last four years, as we witnessed weakened protection for cultural resources, wildlife, air and waterways, the highest level of protection was not afforded to these incredible places. We can and must do better. The Biden-Harris Administration must address climate change head-on, ensure the federal government – and the park system – is welcoming to diverse communities and reverse damaging policies that put at risk the water, air, wildlife and other resources that make our parks world-renowned.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 30th of April in recent years..the 60 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was more than the average forecast of a 51 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but was well below the average addition of 81 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, as well as well below the 103 billion cubic feet added to natural
If you plan to visit the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Florida, bring your camera and your sense of wonder. This is a back-to-nature experience that rivals any in the Sunshine State.
This story originally was published by Southerly.
Betty Osceola, an elder of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, lives in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida, where a small Texas-based oil developer wants to build seven new wells. Burnett Oil Company slipped in its application Jan. 22, days before President Joe Biden signed an executive order pausing new oil and gas leases on public lands. I wasn’t surprised, Osceola said through a bitter laugh she knew it would happen eventually.
Big Cypress is part of the Greater Everglades and spans 729,000 acres a size comparable to Rhode Island across the heart of South Florida. Ecologists describe it as a mosaic of distinct yet interconnected wetland ecosystems: hardwood hammocks, pine flatwoods, sawgrass prairies, marshes, sloughs and gloomy cypress domes with cottonmouths and ghost orchids and endangered panthers.