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Video: Florida Black Bear Cub
The Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition team and I recently hosted Casey Anderson and a National Geographic TV crew to film content for an upcoming episode of America the Wild: Gator Country. While...
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The Great Nature Project features the Florida Wildlife Corridor
I am pleased to share my Florida Wildlife Corridor photography collection as part of the new Great Nature Project by National Geographic. Carlton Ward’s Florida Wildlife Corridor collection within...
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Exploring Fisheating Creek
Earlier in October, I had a chance to be part of the first group to stand-up paddle the length of Fisheating Creek – a remote and wild tributary to Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades. It was a joint...
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“Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition” Receives Florida Book Award
Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition: Everglades to Okefenokee (2013) I just learned that my 2013 book, Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition: Everglades to Okefenokee, won a silver medal in the Florida...
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Florida Manatees
The Florida Wildlife Corridor team is immersed in planning the next Expedition, a fall 2014 journey that will traverse the Gulf coast for 1,000 miles. And I am starting to get into the field to...
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30 Days Till 2015 Expedition Launches
Carlton Ward Jr. hikes along the Florida National Scenic Trail in the Withlacoochee State Forest earlier this year. The Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition will traverse this area in January. (Image...
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Expedition Ready to Launch
Beginning January 10th, I will join fellow explorers Mallory Dimmitt and Joe Guthrie on a 70-day trek to raise visibility for a wildlife corridor from the Evergaldes Headwaters near Orlando to Gulf...
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Diving Into Florida’s Springs
Florida is said to have the highest concentration of freshwater springs on Earth. The Florida Wildlife Corridor #Glades2Gulf Expedition is traversing springs country near the Gulf of Mexico and...
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An Oysterman Hero in Apalachicola
Oysterman Kendall Shoelles works Apalachicola Bay five days week, continuing the occupation and heritage his grandfather began in the late 1800s. Whether oystering will be viable for the next...
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Bombing Range Is National Example for Wildlife Conservation
Walking through a wildlife underpass from Nokuse Plantation to Eglin Air Force base feels like traveling back in time. On the one side is Nokuse: a 54,000-acre private conservation property and site of...
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Florida black bear facts
An anesthetized Florida black bear waits to receive a GPS collar that will inform researchers about its landscape movements and habitat conservation needs. Photo by Carlton Ward Jr. • The Florida black...
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Black Bears Show Us How to Save Wild Florida
I am a multi-generation Floridian and a photographer focused on wild Florida. I’m also a lifelong hunter who has killed my share of deer and hogs, so when I decided to document the first bear hunt in...
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Camera-Trap Image of Florida Panther Brings New Hope to Conservationists
It’s been four decades since evidence of a female Florida panther was found north of the species’ known breeding range. What does the discovery mean? In 2016, a record number of 34 Florida panthers...
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Together Panthers and Ranchers can Keep Florida Wild
“The panther is going to have to help us save Florida.”—Cary Lightsey, whose family has been ranching in Florida since the 1850s and now protects essential parcels of the Florida Wildlife Corridor A...
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Bear Selfies in Florida Everglades
For the past few months I’ve been working with camera traps at Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, supported by a grant from National Geographic. My purpose is to document the path to recovery of...
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30 Days Till 2015 Expedition Launches
Carlton Ward Jr. hikes along the Florida National Scenic Trail in the Withlacoochee State Forest earlier this year. The Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition will traverse this area in January. (Image...
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Expedition Ready to Launch
Beginning January 10th, I will join fellow explorers Mallory Dimmitt and Joe Guthrie on a 70-day trek to raise visibility for a wildlife corridor from the Evergaldes Headwaters near Orlando to Gulf...
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Diving Into Florida’s Springs
Florida is said to have the highest concentration of freshwater springs on Earth. The Florida Wildlife Corridor #Glades2Gulf Expedition is traversing springs country near the Gulf of Mexico and...
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An Oysterman Hero in Apalachicola
Oysterman Kendall Shoelles works Apalachicola Bay five days week, continuing the occupation and heritage his grandfather began in the late 1800s. Whether oystering will be viable for the next...
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Bombing Range Is National Example for Wildlife Conservation
Walking through a wildlife underpass from Nokuse Plantation to Eglin Air Force base feels like traveling back in time. On the one side is Nokuse: a 54,000-acre private conservation property and site of...
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