WUFT

Northern Expansion

University of Florida fisheries professor and Nature Coast Biological Station Director Mike Allen hopes to hook a snook as the sun sets off Cedar Key, Florida. (Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp/WUFT News) For ...
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The new natives: Climate change is causing native species to migrate

Mike Allen, a fisheries professor and director of the University of Florida’s Nature Coast Biological Station captains "Miss Melinda," in Cedar Key, Fla., on Mar. 25, 2024. Climate change could shift ...

‘We got lucky’: How Florida wildlife died — or survived — in the brutal February freeze

A record-breaking freeze this month sent Florida wildlife into shock. Some of those animals were native, some were invasive.
WUFT

Northern Expansion

For snook, the old rules no longer apply. The tropical gamefish are taking advantage of warmer winters brought on by climate change, forming a genetically-distinct stronghold on the Nature Coast. As ...