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• Celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day with a tortoise friendly yard

  Wednesday, April 6, 2022 -  Gopher Tortoise Day is on April 10 but you can celebrate year-round when you have a tortoise friendly yard.

• Palm Beach County Shooting Sports Complex

  Friday, April 1, 2022 -  This state-of-the-art, wheelchair accessible facility features rifle and handgun ranges and automated sporting clays, 5-stand, skeet, and American and Olympic trap fields.

• Spring BearWise tips to reduce conflicts with bears

  Thursday, March 31, 2022 -  You can help prevent potential negative interactions with bears and other wildlife by removing food attractants and following other BearWise® practices.

• FWC and partners conduct detail to help reduce boating under the influence in Tampa Bay area waterways

  Thursday, March 31, 2022 -  Southwest Region FWC officers, in partnership with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, United States Coast Guard and Treasure Island Police Department, will be conducting enhanced patrols aimed at vessel operators boating under the influence.

• Spiny lobster season closes April 1

  Wednesday, March 30, 2022 -  The spiny lobster recreational and commercial seasons close to harvest in state and federal waters starting April 1 and will reopen Aug. 6.

• 4 Florida counties open April 1 to gag grouper recreational harvest

  Wednesday, March 30, 2022 -  State waters off the coast of Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties will open to recreational harvest of gag grouper starting April 1.

• Permit spawning season closure inside the Special Permit Zone starts April 1

  Wednesday, March 30, 2022 -  This closure includes all state and federal waters south of Cape Sable on the Gulf coast, and south of Cape Florida on the Atlantic coast including all of the Florida Keys and Biscayne Bay south of Rickenbacker Causeway.

• Let’s go fishing! Freshwater license-free weekend is April 2-3

  Tuesday, March 29, 2022 -  On these days, the fishing license requirement is waived for all recreational anglers, including residents and nonresidents.

• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on Lake Tohopekaliga

  Monday, March 28, 2022 -  The FWC will treat invasive hydrilla in areas where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and where it could impact navigation access and flood protection.

• One idle-speed, no-wake zone on Santa Fe active

  Friday, March 25, 2022 -  An idle-speed, no-wake zone means a vessel must proceed at a speed no greater than what is required to maintain steerageway and headway.