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• FWC, partners work to restore aquatic habitat in Loxahatchee River

  Friday, May 6, 2022 -  Staff and partners will transplant 60,000 eelgrass plants along the shallow shoreline areas of the river north of the park.

• FWC planting trees, enhancing Lake Okeechobee habitat

  Wednesday, April 27, 2022 -  This new habitat addition, which is a continuation of seven years of planting efforts, is designed to enhance the marsh’s native plant community, while providing woody structure for nesting and roosting birds.

• FWC planting native aquatic plants to help restore Lake Istokpoga

  Tuesday, April 26, 2022 -  The FWC is planting more than 140,000 native aquatic plants on Lake Istokpoga, a 28,000-acre natural lake in Highlands County, to help restore this popular, shallow sportfishing lake.

• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on Lake Apopka and Johns Lake

  Friday, April 8, 2022 -  The FWC will treat invasive hydrilla in areas where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and could impact access to navigation.

• FWC enhances Lake George and Silver Glen Spring by planting eelgrass

  Thursday, April 7, 2022 -  The FWC, in partnership with Clearwater Marine Aquarium, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, is beginning a project to plant eelgrass, a native freshwater aquatic plant, in Lake George and Silver Glen Spring to enhance fish and wildlife habitat.

• Cherry Lake Working Group hosting public meeting on lake management

  Wednesday, April 6, 2022 -  The Cherry Lake Working Group is hosting a public meeting on Tuesday, April 19, from 6-8 p.m. at 4H Camp Cherry. Prior to the meeting, the Friends of Cherry Lake will host a BBQ from 4 to 5:30 p.m. with requested donations.

• FWC begins habitat enhancement project on Lake Jackson

  Thursday, March 24, 2022 -  Habitat enhancement efforts, including management of invasive plants in open water and replanting scraped sites with native bulrush, are scheduled to be completed by June 1, 2022.

• Join FWC for WildQuest, a scavenger hunt on Florida’s Wildlife Management Areas

  Wednesday, March 16, 2022 -  This year’s event will take place on twelve wildlife management areas across the state during the weekends of April 22-24 and April 29-May 1.

• Orange Lake meeting discusses hydrilla management, provides lake conditions update

  Monday, March 7, 2022 -  The FWC is holding a public meeting on Tuesday, March 15, to provide an update on lake conditions and discuss upcoming hydrilla management for Orange Lake.

• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on Lake Yale

  Monday, January 24, 2022 -  The FWC will treat invasive hydrilla in the Lake County lake in areas where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and could impact access to navigation.