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• Lake management plans now available, FWC hosting public meetings

  Wednesday, October 27, 2021 -  Lake Management Plans are comprehensive, covering the FWC’s management of a system’s fish, wildlife and habitats.

• FWC East Lake Toho project showing signs of success

  Thursday, September 30, 2021 -  Bass, bluegill and redear sunfish are now using the recently restored areas for spawning. Native vegetation including pondweed, eelgrass, spikerush and water lily are growing naturally in areas of the restoration zone.

• Governor Ron DeSantis continues support for FWC and natural resources

  Wednesday, June 2, 2021 -  Included in the Governor’s Florida Leads Budget is critical funding to continue red tide research as a part of the more than $625 million for Everglades restoration and protection of Florida’s water resources.

• FWC transplants aquatic plants to help restore Lake Istokpoga

  Friday, May 7, 2021 -  The FWC is transplanting more than 150,000 aquatic plants on Lake Istokpoga, a 28,000-acre natural lake in Highlands County, to help restore this popular shallow sportfishing lake.

• FWC works to restore habitat at Lake Trafford

  Thursday, May 6, 2021 -  Thousands of native aquatic plants are being transplanted into Lake Trafford, a 1,600-acre natural lake in Collier County, to help restore this popular sport fishing and boating location.

• FWC thanks volunteers for helping with Lake O research project

  Wednesday, May 5, 2021 -  Volunteers worked alongside FWC staff hand pulling Azolla pinnata, a nonnative plant that spreads rapidly and forms dense mats that shade out native submersed plants and interferes with boating and other recreational activities.

• FWC recognizes Alachua County landowner for wildlife conservation efforts

  Wednesday, April 28, 2021 -  Jim Fischer, owner of Hatchet Creek Tree Farm in Alachua County, was recently recognized by the FWC for his outstanding wildlife habitat management efforts, as part of the agency’s Wildlife Habitat Recognition Program.

• Happy Earth Day! FWC, partners, work to restore habitat at Lake George

  Wednesday, April 21, 2021 -  The team will plant more than 5,000 new freshwater eelgrass plants in the shallow areas in Lake George and Silver Glen Springs.

• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on Lake Toho

  Friday, April 2, 2021 -  The FWC will treat invasive hydrilla in the Osceola County lake in areas where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and may impact access to navigation and flood protection.

• Input wanted for Lafayette Forest WEA’s future management plan

  Thursday, April 1, 2021 -  The FWC will present a 10-year management plan for the Lafayette Forest Wildlife and Environmental Area at a virtual public meeting on April 15, at 7 p.m.