NAPLES, Fla. — Two hundred acres of invasive willows and other invasive plants have been removed from Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary as part of an Everglades restoration initiative between Publix and the ...

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — George Wilder doesn’t know what, exactly, he’s looking for on this cloudy morning in May. He’s riding on a swamp buggy with a band of fellow searchers, bumping across a prairie at ...

A Lee County advisory panel is backing a land swap that would keep a sewage treatment plant from being built on county property surrounded on three sides by part of the burgeoning 1,300-unit ...

The effort to remove invasive willows and restore wetlands in the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is getting a $1.2 million boost from Publix. The Florida-based grocery chain announced the five-year funding ...

An interesting plant in both look and texture is the Scarlet Curls corkscrew willow (Salix x ‘Scarcuzam’). This willow can grow as a tree, with one or multiple trunks, or as a multi-stemmed shrub. All ...