
Max Chesnes
Environment Reporter at Tampa Bay Times
Environment reporter @TB_Times. Past: @tcpenvironment💧 Fmr. @ColumbiaUEnergy Fellow. @UFJSchool alum. Drone pilot. #ReadLocal
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1 week ago |
tampabay.com | Max Chesnes
T.J. Saunders spent Thursday morning doing what he loves most: fishing in Apalachicola Bay’s rolling seagrass meadows. The charter captain has called this “forgotten coast” his home for half a decade, and it’s easy to see why: In just three hours, Saunders and his two clients from Kentucky hooked into nearly a dozen redfish. But these days, Saunders is worrying more about the future of his livelihood.
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1 week ago |
tampabay.com | Max Chesnes
Thousands of Floridians protested at their beloved state parks last summer to send a clear message to lawmakers: Public land should be protected. Despite the vast display of bipartisan support for Florida’s wild places, lawmakers on Monday night approved budget cuts to the state’s flagship conservation land acquisition program that helps grow and create new state parks.
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2 weeks ago |
centrotampabay.com | Max Chesnes
El flamenco llegó hasta nosotros exhausto y confundido, como tantos floridanos, apenas unos días después de que el huracán Idalia azotara la región de Big Bend en 2023. Navegantes que evaluaban los daños de la tormenta encontraron al ave luchando a 800 yardas de St. Pete Beach. Probablemente arrastrado por los vientos de Idalia, recibió refugio y fue bautizado como Peaches.
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2 weeks ago |
gazettextra.com | Max Chesnes
The fired state employee who leaked plans to develop nine Florida state parks with golf courses, hotels and other amenities claims in a new lawsuit that Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration retaliated against him.
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2 weeks ago |
thederrick.com | Max Chesnes
The fired state employee who leaked plans to develop nine Florida state parks with golf courses, hotels and other amenities claims in a new lawsuit that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration retaliated against him.
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RT @mahoneysthename: ~1 yr after the @TB_Times revealed a deal to trade 324 acres of preserved forest to a luxury golf resort, top Florida…

Poaching, sweeping habitat loss and dwindling wetlands have plummeted the population of one of Florida’s most beloved flowers Now @USFWS proposes bolstering ghost orchid protections by adding it to the endangered species list https://t.co/PDGTmhy07c

RT @mahoneysthename: The power of public backlash: Last summer, golf resort Cabot Citrus was poised to get 324 acres of state forest, to…