The Everglades, Washington Post speical series: More than 200 interviews and thousands of pages of documents, show that the $7.8 billion plan to restore the Everglades may result in little restoration but will certainly increase water supplies for Florida residents, farmers and businessesman, who already lead the nation in per-capita water consumption. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/everglades/ - (7/20/2002)

Everglades initiatives needing support: Everglades Education Consortium, Everglades Information Centers, Auction for the Everglades, Everglades in the movies, Wind Across the Everglades, and Evergladesvillage.net http://LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind0205b&L=commons-everglades&O=D&P=5344 - (6/15/2002)

Florida Folk Festival 50th Celebration, 5/25-26/02 (Memorial Day Weekend): Folk Artists and other nature lovers: Please join us at the Ecology Mask Making/Wild Florida Species Procession. This will be a family friendly experience to create, learn about and share through the embodiment of Native Florida Habitats, Native Plants and Wildlife --in a folk cultural setting near the Gazebo on the banks of the Suwannee River in the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center and State Park in White Springs off I-75, about 12 miles north of Lake City (http://www.dep.state.fl.us/parks/district2/stephenfoster/index.asp). http://home.earthlink.net/~anhinga/ecoart/index.html  - (5/25/2002)

Association of Systematics Collections (ASC): Supports natural science collections, their human resources, the institutions that house them, and their research activities for the benefit of science and society. Its members are part of an international community of museums, botanical gardens, herbariums, universities and other institutions that house natural science collections and utilize them in research, exhibitions, academic and informal science education, and outreach activities. http://www.ascoll.org  - (5/6/2002)

SustainUS is a US national network of young people organizing around the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in their schools and communities. We are committed to increasing youth participation in sustainable development issues, demanding government accountability to its citizens and adherence to international agreements, and reducing corporate influence in efforts to establish sustainable development practices. We educate young people about sustainable development, lobby decision makers, work with the media, and run projects that promote sustainability. http://www.SustainUS.org/ - (5/1/2002)

FloridaSOS - Save Our State: Your Guide To Understanding How Our State Is Being Destroyed & What You Can Do About It. Presented by FEAR -- Floridians for Environmental Accountability & Reform http://www.floridasos.com - (4/23/2002)

Cry Of The Water: Our members and volunteers donate their time and talent to monitor the health of our coral reefs off the coast of Broward County, Florida. We are a ReefKeeper International affiliate and a ReefCheck member. http://www.cryofthewater.org - (4/21/2002)

AfriGeneas: Devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats. http://www.afrigeneas.com/ - (4/16/2002)

Historian's slave research becomes genealogical treasure chest (Naples News, 8/8/00, By BRETT MARTEL, Associated Press) Now 71 and a retired history professor, Gwen Midlo Hall is on a mission to shed light on America's slaves and their personal histories through thousands of pages of handwritten colonial-era documents salvaged from courthouse basements across Louisiana and as far away as France and Spain. The records, now compiled on a CD-ROM database, cover more than 100,000 slaves in what is believed to be the largest collection of its kind. http://www.naplesnews.com/00/08/features/d346815a.htm  - (4/16/2002)

Florida Heartland Heritage Foundation: A non-profit, educational corporation with the mission to preserve, record and portray the founding of the state and the history and heritage of the pioneers through the symphonic drama "Florida", to be produced in the Florida Heartland, in Lake Placid, Florida. The mission also may be accomplished through other related artistic, educational, ecological and historical endeavors. http://www.htn.net/lplacid/organizations/fhhf.htm - (4/12/2002)

Florida Foundation for Future Scientists: A statewide, non-profit organization authorized by the 1957 Legislature of the State of Florida to discover scientific and technical talent in the schools of Florida and to encourage the pursuit of careers in science and engineering. http://www.fffs.ucf.edu/ - (4/10/2002)

Virtual Field Trips: The Everglades by HomeworkSpot.com http://www.homeworkspot.com/fieldtrip/everglades.htm  - (4/10/2002)

Florida's Design for Conservation proposal: A revolutionary way to fund protecting and enhancing the outdoors through a time-tested and immensely successful funding method developed a quarter-century ago in Missouri http://LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind0202a&L=fl-environewsclips&O=D&P=5393 - (4/5/2002)

U.S. Drought Monitor Map (weekly) http://enso.unl.edu/monitor/monitor.html - (2/22/2002)

NOAA's drought information center: A roundup of the various NOAA Web sites and information on drought and climate conditions http://www.drought.noaa.gov/ - (2/22/2002)