Our efforts to protect the minerals beneath Big Cypress National Preserve’s surface are picking up steam, and we're doing our best to get the word about preventing oil exploration operations. Big Cypress National Preserve’s importance can’t be understated, and it's time we protect it forever.

"The new operations would mark the first expansion of oil drilling since the preserve was created a half century ago in the midst of the 1970s oil crisis," wrote Jenny Staletovich in her article for South Florida’s WLRN. Follow the link to the full article, and keep reading here to learn more about the work that’s left to be done.