Category: environment

MILTON — Capt. Walter H. Reese, USN (Ret.), received Keep Florida Beautiful’s waterways cleanup award earlier this month at the annual state conference held in Sarasota.

Reese, a longtime member o…

MILTON — A prescribed burn is taking place east of the Moors, according to Santa Rosa County Public Information Officer Brandi Whitehurst.

Westervelt Ecological Services is handling the burn, whic…

Navarre Chamber Foundation President Mike Sandler presented a charitable distribution check for $1,000 to the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center board of directors members Yvonne Harper and…

NAVARRE — While one goal behind this week’s  bear workshop in Navarre was to educate and offer solutions to Santa Rosa County residents who encounter black bears, event organizers also wanted to enco…

MILTON — If the Blackwater River seems different, it probably has something to do with the Blackwater Pyrates.
The group pulled an estimated 4,000 pounds of trash — including heavy decking and floa…

Kaitlin Goode is a biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. She said six percent of the calls the FWC receives on bears come from Santa Rosa County.

Local beekeeper Bill Blankenship said swarming season is upon Santa Rosa County. As important as bees are to the environment, Blankenship advised everyone to contact a local beekeeper to safely remov…

Santa Rosa County will host Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Amnesty Day on Saturday, Mar. 19 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Santa Rosa County South Service Center, 5819 Gulf Breeze Parkway in Midway. Thi…

The Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County has issued a rabies alert for Bell Lane in Pace.

Following the Fourth of July activities in downtown Milton and particularly along the BlackwaterRiver, members of the Blackwater Pyrates, a local social civic organization, shared their concerns with…