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Big Cypress Wilderness Wednesdays at Museum of the Everglades

Museum of the Everglades 105 Broadway Ave W, Everglades City, United States

The Big Cypress National Preserve is partnering with the Museum of the Everglades to bring you Wilderness Wednesdays, a lecture series hosted at the museum every Wednesday from 2:00 – 3:00 PM. Join us for a series of talks from January through April presented by our National Park Service on a variety of topics.

Where Did He Find the Time? — Barron Collier, Visionary Businessman

Museum of the Everglades 105 Broadway Ave W, Everglades City, United States

Best-known in our region as the founder and developer of Collier County, Barron Gift Collier was a prodigious and prolific businessman in every sense of the word. In this (almost) birthday tribute, Museum Manager Thomas Lockyear will celebrate Mr. Collier’s uncanny commercial acumen and explore some of his lesser-known ventures that included a chain of […]

Big Cypress Wilderness Wednesdays at Museum of the Everglades

Museum of the Everglades 105 Broadway Ave W, Everglades City, United States

The Big Cypress National Preserve is partnering with the Museum of the Everglades to bring you Wilderness Wednesdays, a lecture series hosted at the museum every Wednesday from 2:00 – 3:00 PM. Join us for a series of talks from January through April presented by our National Park Service on a variety of topics.

Big Cypress Wilderness Wednesdays at Museum of the Everglades

Museum of the Everglades 105 Broadway Ave W, Everglades City, United States

The Big Cypress National Preserve is partnering with the Museum of the Everglades to bring you Wilderness Wednesdays, a lecture series hosted at the museum every Wednesday from 2:00 – 3:00 PM. Join us for a series of talks from January through April presented by our National Park Service on a variety of topics.

Sea Turtles!

Collier Museum at Government Center 3331 Tamiami Trail E, Naples, FL, United States

Join Maura Kraus, Environmental Specialist for Collier County, in a special lecture about sea turtles--air-breathing reptiles that emerge from the sea and deposit their eggs on tropical and subtropical beaches around the world. Collier County has been monitoring and protecting sea turtle nests since 1989. Components involved in protecting sea turtles include monitoring nesting, beach […]

Big Cypress Wilderness Wednesdays at Museum of the Everglades

Museum of the Everglades 105 Broadway Ave W, Everglades City, United States

The Big Cypress National Preserve is partnering with the Museum of the Everglades to bring you Wilderness Wednesdays, a lecture series hosted at the museum every Wednesday from 2:00 – 3:00 PM. Join us for a series of talks from January through April presented by our National Park Service on a variety of topics.

Big Cypress Wilderness Wednesdays at Museum of the Everglades

Museum of the Everglades 105 Broadway Ave W, Everglades City, United States

The Big Cypress National Preserve is partnering with the Museum of the Everglades to bring you Wilderness Wednesdays, a lecture series hosted at the museum every Wednesday from 2:00 – 3:00 PM. Join us for a series of talks from January through April presented by our National Park Service on a variety of topics.

Paved With Good Intentions: How the Road Through the Everglades Harmed the Seminole and Miccosukee

Museum of the Everglades 105 Broadway Ave W, Everglades City, United States

While we celebrate the construction of the Tamiami Trail as a “miracle of modern engineering” that connected Florida’s coast and opened Southwest Florida to tourism, we often fail to acknowledge the reality that there were indigenous people living in the lands the road was built through. The Tamiami Trail not only displaced the native population, […]