Environment

A University of Florida class project is playing a part in helping an east-side Gainesville community decide how it might best improve the  Cabot-Koppers property.

The Santa Fe Preserve Project is collaborating for the first time with Conserve with Us, a funding organization that launched six months ago, dedicated to conserving natural land.

Potential rezoning would allow for single residential, multi-family residential, mixed-use development and conservation management areas on the site containing wetlands and nearly 1,200 acres of planted pines. But that rezoning may not happen anytime soon.

Just three months after the Clay County Commission banned motor vehicles from driving at night on the dry lakebeds of Lake Brooklyn and Lake Geneva, some residents of Keystone Heights are complaining that nothing has changed.

In the recent years Sweetwater Branch Creek along University Avenue and 4th Avenue has become a forgotten park and littered waterway. Now volunteers are trying to clean up the creek that flows through the downtown area of Gainesville, located between the Matheson History Museum Complex and the Alachua County Library District Headquarters.

Devil's Millhopper State Geological Park's park’s most popular feature, the 232-step staircase leading down to the sinkhole, was significantly damaged during Hurricane Irma and remains closed.

Southern pine beetle outbreak causes temporary closure of hiking trail in San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park.

Alex Rosenzweig is a familiar face on the streets of Alachua County, picking up litter to help keep his community clean and beautiful. He recently won a national award.