https://www.savebigcypress.org/home daily 1.0 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1621016470033-UJJM1OXE2D11PS29PW3E/BigCypress_SeismicSurveyDamage2017 Home - Saving Big Cypress from these threats is possible. We’ve done it before. Big Cypress National Preserve is a vital part of the Greater Everglades ecosystem. Big Cypress was saved from jet-port development through the tireless work of diverse people and elected leaders. Let’s come together again to save our swamp from Big Oil. Taxpayers have invested over $1 billion dollars to restore the Everglades, and Big Cypress provides over 40% of the sheetflow of water that is vital to the Everglades. New oil development could derail the massive investment the public has made in restoration, to benefit the few. We can’t let that happen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1621017349172-BD02MF092IVQDUFUNZ2B/BICY_MA_DwarfTree.jpg Home - Congress gave the Secretary of the Interior the power to “limit or control” oil development in the Preserve. State and Federal agencies have the policies in place and the power to protect this precious public land. But it is up to you to ask them to do so and to urge your representative in Congress to protect Big Cypress National Preserve. https://www.savebigcypress.org/about daily 0.75 2022-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1621632995009-V1CHDFX9B3FQLAQV6562/Tamiami+Prospect+in+Big+Cypress+03032021_NPCA.png About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1630000262843-73TIDYWRRHV7RVX2Y9B3/Water+Use+impact+graphic.png About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1631297681042-55N1T9QLJF7YDAIO3ONH/Nobles+Grade-OilImpactMap_NPCA.png About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.savebigcypress.org/reports daily 0.75 2024-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1621022446805-07XLSBGK7MHMY4DRIPAO/Seismic_rutted_lines_BICY_late2020.png https://www.savebigcypress.org/resources daily 0.75 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1621022446805-07XLSBGK7MHMY4DRIPAO/Seismic_rutted_lines_BICY_late2020.png Resources - Make it stand out Photo credit: Big Cypress Natl. Preserve, Lighthawk.org. This image, taken in late 2020, shows how the seismic survey lines cut through Big Cypress National preserve in 2017 and 2018 have not yet recovered. These scars across this vital Everglades landscape are still visible from the air, rutting and channelizing the Preserve’s fragile wetlands, impairing water flow across the River of Grass, damaging endangered species habitat, and impacting the experience of all those that come to visit this part of the Preserve seeking tranquility or experiences in wild nature. Adding insult to injury, this happened inside an Eligible Wilderness Area, which should be protected by law under America’s Wilderness Act and National Park Service Director’s Order #41 on Wilderness Stewardship. With your help we can avoid letting new industrial oil development occur in this region - there is still a window to save it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1633372309796-Y3IVTBMU8UEKF99PDD0T/P_BCNP_FloridaPantherTrack0001.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Federally listed endangered species: A Florida panther track found in Big Cypress National Preserve not far from where the proposed oil development is targeted for. View the About page to see maps showing panther telemetry data that demonstrate the overlap of endangered Florida panther habitat with the two sites proposed for industrial oil development within Big Cypress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1633372663467-LRYK86RP5LWL2GAN2619/W_BCNP_WaterMoccasin0004.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Found in Big Cypress: water moccasin snakes, also called cottonmouths https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1633372420443-GV3ASYQUYSZOOUM84VZC/W_BICY_MilkyWay0018+%281%29.jpg Resources - Make it stand out In 2016, Big Cypress National Preserve became the first National Park site east of Colorado to be designated an International Dark Sky Place. Industrial oil development is incompatible with preserving the scenery, tranquility, wilderness character, and starry night skies of the Preserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1633372541467-OM3CK0LA3KT4CL1D951R/W_BNP_BaldEagle0002+%281%29.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Found in Big Cypress: statuesque bald eagles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1633372496039-QRCFCEM156CW0FW7JWZQ/W_BCNP_BartramsRosegentian0006+%281%29.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Found in Big Cypress: Bartram’s rosegentian, a stunning prairie wildflower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1632233090654-30VRN44VZS95TMKI4D6X/P_BCNP_GhostOrchid0029.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Globally imperiled species are found in Big Cypress. The Preserve provides critical habitat for exceedingly threatened ghost orchids. Ghost orchids are slow-growing with only a handful of likely pollinators, and threatened by hydrological modification, illegal poaching, wildfire, trail development, climate change, hurricanes, and other impacts to their habitat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1633372623881-6HAZAOG9S6VVJ57TANOV/W_BCNP_AmericanAlligator0001.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Found in Big Cypress: American alligators https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1632234163767-D8PU1IB0EPBEBWH65L2U/P_BCNP_FoxSquirrel0004.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Endemic to South Florida: the rare Big Cypress Fox Squirrel can be spotted in cypress trees and other tree species within the Preserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1633372061458-VUNTC6QM1KN9G2ADO6TT/W_BICY_SunsetCypress0012+%281%29.jpg Resources - Make it stand out This is an image of Dwarf Cypress Prairie, one of the habitat types that could be devastated by the proposed oil development within Eligible Wilderness areas of the Preserve. Over 200 species of native grass & grass-like species comprise the diverse and irreplaceable prairies of Big Cypress, including a federally-listed species protected under the Endangered Species Act: Digitaria pauciflora, Everglades crabgrass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1633372349928-DUPFLIO8WFJ0W0AJHKJ8/W_BCNP_RoseateSpoonbill0011+%281%29.jpg Resources - Make it stand out Found in Big Cypress: roseate spoonbill, a wading bird in the ibis family. https://www.savebigcypress.org/take-action daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://www.savebigcypress.org/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-30 https://www.savebigcypress.org/press-1 daily 0.75 2023-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Press https://www.savebigcypress.org/reports-test daily 0.75 2024-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609e9946dbe21e52f97a7cdb/1621022446805-07XLSBGK7MHMY4DRIPAO/Seismic_rutted_lines_BICY_late2020.png