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* Florida senators sought on Thursday to scale back oil and gas drilling plans for a part of the Gulf of Mexico, hoping to push development farther from the state's coast
- Daytona Beach News-Journal, 2-17-06

* St. Vincent Island; Biology or Baloney? The USFWS purchased the island in 1968 and placed it into it's refuge system. Thus begins a sad story for the fish and wildlife of this beautiful, once game and fish-rich paradise.
- Apalachicola & Carrabelle Times, 2-16-06

* Tides sweeping history from Folly. Civil War forts, artifacts being lost to erosion
- Charleston Post and Courier, 1-16-06

* Hilton Head Island Mayor Tom Peeples on Wednesday assured members of the tourism industry that none of the upcoming beach renourishment project will take place on the main part of the beach this summer
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-16-06

* Manatees flock to Blue Spring in record numbers
- Daytona Beach News-Journal, 1-16-06

* Destin to review sea wall rules
- Northwest Florida Daily News, 1-16-06

* Hunley scientists will use a $500,000 donation from best-selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell to identify the sub's four European crewmen - and find out why they died
- Charleston Post and Courier, 3-15-06

* Fishing gear killed whale calf. Gill net fishing is closed off Georgia and northeast Florida coasts through March 3
- Savannah Morning News, 3-14-06

* Most Hilton Head visitors are from Ohio
- Beaufort Gazette, 2-14-06

* The Edisto Beach Property Owners Association has circulated a petition that supports seceding from Colleton County if the General Assembly can't agree on sufficient tax relief
- Charlston Post and Courier, 2-13-06

* Marineland's rebirth yields treasure-trove from past
- Daytona Beach News-Journal, 2-12-06

* It’s never too early to prepare for the annual arrival of the coveted cobia run each year in the Destin area. The fish typically show up in early to mid-March, and tournaments are staged here in Destin for the biggest cobia caught
* Destin Log, 1-12-06

* River crabbing part of watermen's lives
- Hilton Head Island Packet, 2-11-06

* The five-member Emerald Coast Bridge Authority is scheduled to make a decision next month on a preferred route for a second bridge from Fort Walton Beach to Okaloosa Island
- Northwest Florida Daily News, 2-11-06

* People who like to fish in Flagler Beach's canals soon may have to cast their nets elsewhere. The Flagler Beach City Commission ordered City Attorney Charles Cino at a meeting Thursday night to draft an ordinance that would prohibit the use of net fishing in canals
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 2-10-05

* Biologists survey rare birds on Cumberland Island
- Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 2-9-06

* A yet-to-be-unveiled plan for commercial and residential space along the Amelia River waterfront will ideally be compatible with a master plan for that area, city planning staff have said
- Fernandina Beach News Leader, 2-8-06

* The public soon might have historic Morris Island in its hands. For how long is anybody's guess. The island beach is eroding, as much as 20 feet per year. At one spot only a narrow strip of dunes separates the ocean from the marsh, and that was only about 30 feet wide last year
- Charleston Post and Courier, 2-8-06

* FOLLY BEACH - A height limit of 40 feet above base flood levels in the city's new commercial corridor was recommended Monday by the Planning Commission
- Charleston Post and Courier, 2-7-06

* Community leaders and Glynn County's federal legislative delegation teamed up to press for a federal appropriation of $19.1 million to deepen the bridge channel after Bush omitted it from his proposed budget for fiscal 2006
- Brunswick News, 2-7-06

* Effective as of 6 a.m. today, portions of Mobile Bay that were temporarily closed to the harvesting of oysters on Jan. 30 will be reopened, according to an Alabama Department of Public Health news release. This includes Cedar Point, Heron Bay, Dauphin Island Bay and Bon Secour Bay
- Mobile Regisger, Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 2-6-05

* Hilton Head tourism efforts get needed boost. Hilton Head Island is poised to increase its marketing efforts to stay competitive with other vacation destinations
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-7-06

* It's been five years in the making, but the end is almost in sight for the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island
- Brunswick News, 2-6-06

* The feelings of most of those gathered at a special Fort Walton Beach City Council meeting Monday night were summed up before any words for or against a second bridge to Okaloosa Island were spoken
- Northwest Florida Daily News, 2-7-06

* While colder climes see snow each winter, the warm waters around Crystal River and Homosassa on Florida's western coast welcome North America's largest manatee assembly. And this year is no exception
- Apalachicola & Carrabelle Times, 2-6-06

* A committee formed to develop "a real master plan" for the Fernandina Beach city waterfront includes mostly waterfront property owners or representatives of waterfront properties
- Fernandina Beach News Leader, 2-4-06

* A proposal to lower fees the state charges on for-profit community docks and marinas has drawn fire from environmental groups who say it's not in the public interest and violates the Georgia Constitution
- Savannah Morning News, 2-3-06

* Heritage tourism finds St. Marys, Georgia
- Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 2-3-06

* Flagler Beach debates necessity of height-limit referendum
- Daytona Beach News-Journal, 2-4-06

* The Glynn County Commission tabled a proposal Jan. 19 that would have levied a daily $3 charge or $20 seasonal charge from Memorial Day through Labor Day for parking at two St. Simons Island beaches
- Brunswick News, 1-31-06

* New battle fought for Morris Island. Modern-day forces struggle to keep historic site in private hands
- Charleston Post and Courier, 1-29-06

* When Dale and Peach Hench decided to trade their busy lives in Springfield, Ill., to retire in a condo on Flagler Beach, two things sold them on the location: Whales and turtles. The couple loves to watch the sea creatures make regular appearances on and off the Flagler Beach seashore
- Daytona News Journal, 1-29-06

* Proposal for salt water marina north of Keaton Beach in Taylor County, Florida
- Tallahassee Democrat, 1-29-06

* A South Carolina House of Representatives subcommittee is expected to begin its review of new limits for marsh island bridges, with local legislators ready to preserve valuable vistas from the expansive concrete stretches to private getaways
- Beaufort Gazette, 1-28-05

* Town unveils plan for Coligny redesign
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-27-06

* State Sen. Jeff Chapman, R-Brunswick, put the brakes on a movement to incorporate St. Simons and Sea islands
- Brunswick Neww, 1-2-06

* Responding to ongoing economic and environmental pressures on the local seafood industry, Franklin County has created a task force of leading seafood people from throughout the county, to be coordinated by the former director of the Apalachicola Riverkeeper
- Apalachicola & Carrabelle Times, 1-26-06

* A Bluffton resident might have caught a record-setting bluefin tuna Sunday. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources should know today whether the 397-pound fish is a state record
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-24-06

* Another of Hilton Head Island's drinking water wells has been contaminated with salt water and has been shut off, the Hilton Head Public Service District said Thursday
- Beaufort Gazette, 1-21-06

* The Glynn County Commission backed off a proposed parking fee at two St. Simons Island beaches Thursday, but it did not rule the idea out completely
- Brunswick News, 1-20-06

* A private company unveiled plans Wednesday for a $250 million inland port system, saying it would use barges, trains and remote distribution sites to speed the movement of ocean-going containers that come through Charleston.
- Charleston Post and courier, 1-19-06

* Calls for contractors interested in working on the $8.3 million nourishment of Hunting Island State Park are expected to go out soon with hopes of completing the work before loggerhead turtle nesting begins in May
- Beaufort Gazette, 1-19-06

* Such a short distance for such a big headache might be one description of the ongoing construction of the new bridge on U.S. 98 at Mexico Beach’s west end. The bridge is the only entrance into Mexico Beach from the west.

In a lengthy meeting last Friday, members of the St. Joseph Peninsula Beach Advisory Committee chose a plan to explore further in the county’s efforts to stabilize and renourish the peninsula gulf front
- Port St. Joe Star, 1-18-06

* A saltwater showdown. S.C., Ga. clash over drinking water issue
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-17-06

* Winter guests flock to coast
- Brunswick News, 1-14-06

* Building a better pier: Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis packed a one-two punch that ultimately spelled a knockout for the almost 30-year-old Dan Russell Pier at Panama City Beach
- Panama City News Herald, 1-15-06

* The effort to develop part of historic Morris Island hit a major roadblock Thursday when Charleston County Council went on record opposing it
- Charleston Post and Courier, 1-13-06

* The top price ever paid for a house on the Charleston peninsula reached a new altitude last week, when one of the city's oldest and most historic residences changed hands for $6.1 million
- Charleston Post and Courier, 1-12-06

* Materials to form faux reef. Department of Natural Resources hopes move will promote fishing
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-13-06

* Dead humpback whale washes up on Cape Island South Carolina
- Charleston Post and Courier, 1-12-06 

* The Pensacola Gulf Coastkeepers Inc. changed its name, appointed a new volunteer coastkeeper and welcomed four new board members Wednesday
- Pensacola News Journal, 1-12-06

* Nearly 16 months after Hurricane Ivan, the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier remains broken and battered in the Gulf of Mexico
- Northwest Florida Daily News, 1-11-06

* A public hearing was canceled Monday after plans for a controversial residential development on Long Island were deferred until next month.Developers for the project that would bring 190 homes and a bridge linking the development to Folly Beach, 1-10-06

* Members of the South Carolina Savannah River Committee on Monday called a draft of a Georgia water plan "unacceptable," saying it does too little to prevent saltwater intrusion into one of Hilton Head Island's main sources of drinking water
* The Town of Hilton Head Island should take a greater role in preserving the beach by seeking to have more control of certain beach structures, a town committee decided Monday
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-10-06

* Onlookers in New Smyrna Beach question $14 million pumping plan. The $14 million question is, will it stick around or be washed out to sea?
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 1-10-05

* With Morris Island lighthouse aid in sight, group turns to Folly Civil War site
- Charleston Post and Courier, 1-9-06

* The Florida Legislature will be asked to multiply the state's financial commitment to the St. Johns River by nearly 10 times this spring as part of a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project to purify the waterway
- Florida Times Union, 1-9-05

* Myrtle Island residents fear effects of development. Some longtime residents are wondering how the changes will affect their small, quiet community on the May River
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-8-06

* Tough shell, fragile existence. Eastern oysters dying a more rapid death
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 1-8-06

* St. Cahterines Island
- Golden Isles Weekend Online, January, 2006

* Officials want to ban cell calls on F.J. Torras Causeway between St. Simons Island and the mainland
- Brunswick News, 1-5-06

* A buyout plan designed to thin the commercial grouper fishing fleet in the Gulf of Mexico has won industry approval, but opponents have attacked the way the votes were tabulated and still hope to sink it
- Port St. Joe Star, 1-4-06

* The South Carolina has not decided what to do with nine remote fishing camps shuttered last year on eight small islands west of Fripp Island, while families that used the camps for generations lament their lost vacation spots
- Beaufort Gazette, 1-3-06

* Jacksonville will try to gain federal backing this year for dredging Fort George Inlet and using the sand for beach renourishmen
- Florida Times Union, 1-3-06

* A bird's-eye view of Bull's Island
- Charleston Post and Courier, 1-2-06

* On Wednesday, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources extended the state's commercial food shrimp season past the traditional Dec. 31 deadline
- Brunswick News, 12-29-05

* A buyout plan designed to thin the commercial grouper fishing fleet in the Gulf of Mexico has won industry approval, but opponents have attacked the way the votes were tabulated and still hope to sink it
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-30-05

* Hunley porthole might rewrite story of doomed sub's demise
* Seabrook Island dog owners unleash debate. Group wants stretch of beach for pets, but others see threat to wildlife
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-29-05

* Traffic on Hilton Head Island in 2005 increased significantly at several intersections over the past year
- Beaufort Gazette, 12-29-05

* Hourly water taxi now under way between Charleston, Mount Pleasant
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-28-05

* Steel wall to protect A1A in Flagler. State offers alternative to sea wall plan
-  Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-28-05

* Surfboard enterprises not going under, locals say. Local businesses say the demise of surfboard materials supplier won't cripple the industry
-  Savannah Morning News, 12-26-05

* With $29.4 million in last-minute state and federal appropriations in hand, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to restart work on Brunswick's long-awaited harbor deepening project
- Brunswick News, 12-22-05

* A developer will be allowed to build a seven-story condominium on the oceanfront in Jacksonville Beach, a judge ruled. Circuit Court Judge Jean Johnson determined that the rights of developer Lee Underwood of Eagle Development were vested prior to the implementation of the 35-foot height restriction Nov. 2, 2004
- The Beaches Leader, 12-16-05

* Spurred by homeowners' complaints about cars and noise, Volusia County could join Ponce Inlet in limiting short-term vacation rentals in residential neighborhoods
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-21-05

* A section of State Road A1A that was closed after ocean waves undermined the roadbed on Monday might not reopen until next week, officials said
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-20-05

* Next summer will likely pass without Santa Rosa Island's two major beach roads reopening to traffic
- Pensacola News Journal, 12-19-05

* Gulf Commissioners Approve Beach Restoration Funding Framework
- Port St. Joe Star, 12-15-05

* Tensions are still brewing between fishermen and surfers at the Jacksonville Beach fishing pier following a weekend brawl between the two sides
- Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 12-14-05

* New Smyrna beach restoration set to begin in January
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-15-05

* Folly residents criticize council over lack of height restrictions
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-14-05

* Florida's big business lobby added its voice Monday to the debate over oil and gas drilling off the state's coast, arguing energy costs are too high to leave resources untapped
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-13-05

* Net fishermen determined to fight. Lawsuits, protests aimed at (Florida) state net rules. The amendment, approved by voters in 1994, prohibited gill and entangling nets in Florida waters. It also prohibited nets larger than 500 square feet from nearshore and inshore waters
- Tallahassee Democrat, 12-13-05

* Preliminary subdivision proposal calls for 190 homes on Long Island which includes about 140 high land acres that stretch more than two miles into the vast marsh between James, Peas, Oak, Morris and Folly islands
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-11-05

* Gulf fisheries prepare for new snapper rules
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-11-05

* Perdido Key may be poised for rebirth
- Pensacola News Journal, 12-11-05

* In a few weeks, the contractor demolishing the old Cooper River bridges will face its biggest challenge: removing the spans of the John P. Grace and Silas N. Pearman bridges from over the shipping channel of the fourth-largest container port in the country
* Myrtle Beach weighs taller buildings
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-10-05

* The long, arduous process of auctioning the Durango-Georgia properties came to an end late Wednesday night as the bankruptcy trustees announced Osprey Cove developer LandMar as the highest and best bidder out of three qualified, interested parties
- Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 12-9-05

* There is more than just new sand needed out on St. Joseph Peninsula
- Port St. Joe Star, 12-9-05

* Closure of surfboard foam company wipes out industry
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-9-05

* Cool weather and shark bites: It's not as rare a combination as you might think. As four people learned in October and November, swimming and surfing around Ponce de Leon Inlet can be as risky in fall as in the summer
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-8-05

* Hilton Head Island took a step toward finalizing much-debated new rules regulating abandoned boats on the beaches
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 12-7-05

* A brief economic boom that Gulf Coast shrimpers enjoyed after Hurricane Katrina is coming to an end -- and all for want of a cold place to store the tremendous amounts of shrimp now being hauled in by the few trawlers the storm left working, shrimpers say
- Mobile Register, 12-6-05

* In Depth: Hurricane anxiety? Coastal building still booming
- St. Augustine Record, 11-4-05

* Micropaleontologist Scott Hippensteel says little specks of rare fossil shell of a marine microorganism suggest that severe hurricanes were much more frequent 1,000-3,000 years ago than they have been for the past 1,000 years
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-3-05

* Visiting Tybee Island's beach will soon be a little bit easier for folks using wheelchairs and walkers. An $18,000 state grant will buy three lengthy Kevlar mats that will be used to traverse loose sand at the beach's edge, linking the ends of crosswalks with hard sand closer to the water, City Manager Bob Thomson said
- Savannah Morning News, 12-2-05

* It's supposed to be 12-feet deep, but it's not. In at least four places in Georgia, including one in Glynn County, the depth of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway is at or below 4 feet
- Brunswick News, 12-2-05

* The number of red grouper recreational fisherman will be able to keep from state waters has been reduced
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-3-05

* Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called offshore drilling "incompatible" with military training and weapons testing in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida's shores
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-2-05

* Restoration at Navarre Beach should begin by mid- to late-February, with completion of sand dredging by May 31
- Pensacola News Journal, 12-2-05

* Georgetown County Council could take up an ordinance in December to ban beach vitex.
- Coastal Observer

* Post-storm access to beaches now easier, Escambia sets up new re-entry procedure
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-30-05

* Apalach oysters making comeback
- Panama City News Hearald, 11-30-05

* Marineland's population could boom
- St. Augustine Record, 11-29-05

* Retiree has hopes for sea wall device
- Daytona News Journal, 11-29-05

* Daufuskie development a slow process
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-28-05

* Developers eye Daufuskie for new market
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-27-05

* October was a terrible month for salt marsh mosquitoes and counts have been high all over the island, according to Bruce Hyers, acting director of the Amelia Island Mosquito Control District
- Fernandina Beach News Leader, 11-26-05

* MARINELAND -- With an expected population boom of more than 3,000 percent, this small town on a desolate stretch of State Road A1A is poised to dethrone Palm Coast as the fastest-growing city in Flagler County
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-27-05

* A strong catch in October has shrimpers hopeful that they'll beat back what had been a disappointing shrimp season
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 11-26-05

* That there has been a big increase in real estate prices at the Beaches is an absolute certainty. How much higher home prices will go is less certain
- Fernandina Beaches Leader, 11-26-05

* A strong catch in October has shrimpers hopeful that they'll beat back what had been a disappointing shrimp season, but undercutting foreign producers and high gas prices are still keeping some boats tied to the docks
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-25-05

* Because of the curve of Georgia’s coast, a hurricane would have a larger storm surge and cause greater damage from flooding than if it hit further north or south because the water has nowhere to go, according to computer models
- Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 11-23-05

* Circuit Judge Michael Traynor pressed St. Johns County's top beach-management official on Wednesday for a timeline for beach access improvements and why certain accesses in the county are slated for improvement earlier than in Ponte Vedra Beach
-  Florida Times Union, 11-24-05

* Barely in time for the holidays, the state today is reopening a portion of Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting
- Tallahassee Democrat, 11-24-05

* The Surfrider Foundation sued St. Johns County over access points and parking. The foundation, a non-profit organization based in California, said the county violated the Public Trust Doctrine by not maintaining these as open beach access points for the public
- Florida Times Union, 11-23-05

* After months of negotiations, the Port St. Joe Port Authority and the St. Joe Company have hammered out the terms for a port location north of the old mill site
* Gulf County commissioners spent two-and-a-half hours last Friday hearing the pros and cons of beach renourishment
- Port St. Joe Star, 11-22-05

* State backs off sea wall idea for A1A. Flagler Beach Residents no longer have to fear three miles of concrete sea wall
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-22-05

* Island restoration advocates shift debate. The new argument: Dauphin Island's west end needs to be saved because it protects Mobile from storms
- Mobile Register, Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 11-20-05

* After 22 months of closure and about $150,000 in repairs to its spiral staircase, the Hunting Island lighthouse reopened in February
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-21-05

* Crab pot lines are considered one of the most serious hazards to the mammal in state waters. Playing out the trap's line so that it lies straight along the bottom tends to keep it from snarling underwater and entangling dolphins
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-20-05

* Why a second causeway to St. Simons Island isnot on the horizon
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-19-05

*  City of Fernandina Beach is seeking $1 million in emergency aid to forestall the loss of beach north of Sadler Road
- Fernandina Beach News Leader, 11-16,-05

* Volusia on high end of hurricane insurance hike. In a move that will hammer many coastal residents of Volusia County, a state-backed property insurer said Thursday it will raise average rates by more than 15 percent
* Officials consider sea wall to protect A1A in Flagler
-  Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-18-05

* Beach mouse proposal delayed. A redevelopment push on Pensacola Beach gained steam Thursday night, while a plan to facilitate new construction on Perdido Key stalled yet again
- Pensacola News-Journal, 11-18-05

* The public this week can praise, criticize or otherwise chime in about the State Ports Authority's plan to expand its handling capacity by building a $600 million container terminal on the south end of the former Navy base in North Charleston
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-17-05

* New St. Simons Island pier in the works near Gascoigne Bluff The pier is being built as an alternative for anglers who fished off the Sea Island bridge, now closed to the general public
- Brunswick News, 11-16-05

* New bill would bring gas drilling to 20 miles of Florida coast
- Daytona Beach News-Journal, 11-16-05

* A group of businesses and local governments in Alabama and Georgia is requesting a hearing on Florida's decision to deny a permit for dredging the Apalachicola River. But the request may have come too late
- Tallahassee Democrat, 11-15-05

* The U.S. Congress is expected to approve and President Bush to sign a 2006 appropriations bill that includes $2.25 million for a proposed Fernandina Beach beach restoration project
- Fenandina Beach News Leader, 11-11-05

* Hilton Head likely to keep subsidized flood insurance
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-13-05

* Regulations require that oyster harvesters gather by hand
- Brunswick News, 11-12-05

* Recreational fishermen are challenging a proposal for a one-month ban on grouper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and permanent limits on the amount people can catch and keep. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is seeking to prohibit recreational fishing for all types of grouper from Feb. 15 to March 15
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-13-05

* The rare right whales are at the heart of a challenge to the permit to build Georgia's largest marina complex at Cumberland Harbour, in St. Mary's
- Savannah Morning News, 11-10-05

* A study begun in December 2004 by the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in Savannah showed that inshore bottlenose dolphins along Georgia's coast – especially those near Brunswick – are laden with high levels of chemical pollutants
- Brunswick News, 11-10-05

* The federal government allocated $100,000 to do a preliminary study on beach renourishment of St. Johns County's shoreline.The Army Corps of Engineers will look at all of St. Johns County's oceanfront with the exception of St. Augustine Beach where a renourishment project is already under way
- St. Augustine Record, 11-10-05

* Tempered by the prospect of future fights, offshore drilling opponents cautiously celebrated this week's defeat of a congressional measure that would have brought oil and natural gas rigs closer to Florida's coastline
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-11-05

* Hilton Head Island is not a likely candidate to make a proposed list of Southern coastal communities that should be ineligible for federally subsidized flood insurance, according to geology professor Robert Young "My guess is that Hilton Head wouldn't end up on a preliminary list of the U.S.'s most vulnerable shorelines," Young said
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 11-10-05

* After four months spent devising a beach restoration plan for Cape San Blas, the county Beach Advisory Committee found itself back at the drawing board Monday night, as the County Commission voted 5-0 to reject the committee’s proposed funding mechanism
* Aalachicola Bay Poised to Reopen Soon for Oystering
* What Is Beach Restoration And Why We Are Talking About It In Gulf County
Port St. Joe Star, 11-9-05

* Fish condos growing bigger, thanks to old Cooper bridges
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-9-05

* The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council proposes to ease the rules for one species, the red porgy, and tighten rules for four other species, increasing the minimum legal size and reducing the number that can be caught of vermilion snapper, golden tilefish, black sea bass and snowy grouper
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-9-05

* Most Florida politicians still say they're opposed to offshore drilling, but they are divided on proposed federal legislation that would allow oil and natural gas rigs 125 miles from the state's beaches
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-7-05

* After a tense four-year wait, the federal government has weighed in: Beach driving can stay. Volusia County officials learned this week they can keep cars on the beach until 2030 under a new, renewable permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-5-05

* Designs for two storm-damaged beach roads, Fort Pickens Road and J. Earle Bowden Way, should be complete in a few weeks, but when the money will come through to pay for repairs is anybody's guess
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-5-05

* Oysters plucked from Apalachicola Bay have long been the highlight of this celebration, but for the first time in about two decades, the raw shellfish scooped into plastic cups and sold for $5 a helping at the Florida Seafood Festival are from Texas, not Florida
- Paanama City News Herald, 11-5-05

* Escambia County commissioners Thursday night scheduled a vote for Nov. 17 on whether to proceed with a controversial agreement with wildlife conservation officials that would protect the endangered Perdido Key beach mouse and allow hundreds of millions of dollars in pent-up development to procee d The agreement calls for a one-time assessment of $100,000 per acre of new development on beach mouse habitat and a recurring annual fee of $201 per residential unit
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-4-05

* On Friday morning near noon, the Cape St. George Island lighthouse, greatly beloved and admired by the Apalachicola Bay community as a beacon for seven generations, passed away due to natural causes
- Port St. Joe Star, 11-2-05

* Plan hatched to restore Cape St. George Lighthouse
- Tallahassee Democrat, 11-3-05

* Local anglers can now catch grouper this month and next after a federal judge ruled this week that the previously announced closure was overly broad
- The Destin Log, 11-2-05

* With Apalachicola Bay having been closed for two months because of red tide, oystering families and Franklin County commissioners on Tuesday voiced suspicion toward the state officials who are keeping the bay closed
-  Tallahassee Democrat, 11-2-05

* The Life Cycle of A Blue Crab in Florida
- Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

* Charter boat captains are struggling to keep their livelihoods afloat after storm-socked red snapper fishing season ended Monday. Many captains reported a 40 percent to 50 percent drop in their business this season
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-1-05

* County considers plans for Broad River pier
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-31-05

* More turtles nest on Volusia beaches
- Daytona Beach News-Journal, 10-31-05

* A 10-foot, 1,000-pound pygmy sperm whale was found dead on Folly Field Beach early Saturday morning, the eighth such whale to wash up on the South Carolina coast this year
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-30-05

* Dune restoration plan fights back against Mother Nature at New Smyrna Beach
* Dolphin feeding continues in Panhandle despite federal ban
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 10-29-05

* Work is scheduled to begin Monday on a sand berm to protect Navarre Beach, but the wait will be slightly longer for the highly anticipated beach and dune restoration project aimed at rebuilding a coastline ravaged by storms
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-29-05

* Hunting Island State Park manager Ray Stevens has been drafted to guide the state's nine coastal parks after proven success for 15 years in preserving the island's historic lighthouse and fast-eroding beaches
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-28-05

* 2 decisions favor beach driving, one in a five-year-old New Smyrna Beach case; the other in a recent challenge to the conservation poles used to separate cars from sea turtle nesting areas
- Daytona News Journal, 10-28-05

* East Pass needs another dredging
- Destin Log, 10-26-05

* Crews replace Hunting Island sand dunes
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-26-05

* Just when deepening of Brunswick's harbor will resume and how much funding the project will receive remain question marks more than three weeks into the new federal budget year
- Brunswick News, 10-25-05

* Freshwater jellyfish no fish tale. Technically, they're not really jellyfish. They're hydrozoas
- Daytona Beach News, 10-25-05

* Freshwater Jellyfish by Dr. Terry Peard

* Nearly all the land left to develop on Perdido Key is subject to a proposal to preserve the barrier island's endangered beach mouse
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-25-05

* Pollution not cause of red tide in in much of the Panhandle and Big Bend Tallahassee Democrat, 10-23-05

* After having its tilt corrected three years ago, the 153-year-old lighthouse on Little St. George Island was found toppled in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday
- Tallahassee Democrat, 10-22-05

* Cape St. George Lighthouse Collapses Into The Gulf
- Forgotten Coastline, 10-21-05

* Florida denies dredge permit for Apalachiacola River
- Port St. Joe Star, 10-20-05

* The Charleston Nearshore Reef has grown by 7,500 tons since the demolition of the two old Cooper River bridges began in August.The reef, located roughly two miles past the jetties, has received three barge-loads of concrete
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-19-05

* As the pinch for oil and natural gas supply intensifies, energy companies are beginning a push to seek fuels believed to be off the coast of South Carolina
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-19-05

* The government has put a stop to fishing for red grouper in the Gulf of Mexico for the remainder of 2005 because the year's quota of 10.1 million pounds has already been caught. That means restaurants will have to start importing their grouper, probably from Mexico
* Volusia County fights suit to remove conservation poles that block off Volusia's dune area -- where sea turtles frequently nest -- from vehicles
- Daytona News Journal, 10-18-05

* National park may seek Eglin land. Okaloosa Island could become the prize in a tug-ofwar between the Department of Defense and the Department of the Interior if Eglin Air Force Base ever wants to sell or trade its land
- Northwest Florida Daily News, 10-17-05

* Grouper quotas spur outrage. Proposal may push out small fish operations
- Tallahassee Democrat, 10-17-05

* Whale monitoring program seeks beach-dwellers to keep watch along Lowcountry coast
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-16-05

* Port Royal visitors and residents who kayak on local waterways soon could have a formalized paddling path of their own on the Beaufort River
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-15-05

* Divers carefully probed the massive chunk of steel at the bottom of Town Creek on Thursday, searching for explosives that might not have detonated in Tuesday's dramatic demolition of the Silas N. Pearman Bridge
- Chalreston Post and Courier, 10-14-05

* Round House Design Could Reduce Hurricane Damage
- Golden Isles Weekend Online, October 2004

* New waves of aggressive salt marsh mosquitoes are swarming beach and coastal residents. They are big, strong and nasty. And they have a vicious bite
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-14-05

* The Ocean Course, the site of an upcoming major professional golf championship, is under siege from its briny namesake and needs a big shot of sand if its world-famous closing hole is to be saved
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-13-05

* Sea Turtle Patrol asks public's help on hatchlings hit by storm wash. Storm activity in the Atlantic ocean has caused many sea turtle hatchlings to wash back on shore
- Beaches Leader, 10-12-05

* A group of residents is suing the city over how it handled the rezoning of several newly annexed properties along Folly Road. The lawsuit seeks to put a halt to any construction there until the case is cleared up
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-12-05

* A new high-rise condominium-hotel by Gulf Breeze-based Innisfree Hotels is planned for Pensacola Beach, with a scheduled 2007 opening
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-12-05

* Rebounding from a disappointing 2004, Hilton Head Island's sea turtle nesting season came to an abrupt end last week, as higher than normal tides caused by Tropical Storm Tammy swept the final four nests out to sea
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-11-05

* Fernandina Beach homeowners fight uphill battle for costly beach renourishment
- Florida Times Union, 10-11-05

* The oyster industry in South Carolina is a shell of its former self, but a few entrepreneurs are trying to keep local oystering afloat, with strategies such as marketing oysters through the Internet and creating new Lowcountry oysters that look better on dinner plates See localoysters.com
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-10-05

* Marshes survive die-back; slow recovery is under way .While a Georgia wide marsh die-back had biologists and other researchers panicked at one point, many are breathing a bit easier now
- Brunswick News, 10-8-05

* Solution to A1A erosion elusive. So far, the state Department of Transportation's answer has been to dump coquina or granite rock to reinforce the weak sections of the dune --a stopgap measure that costs about $1 million each time a hurricane or nor'easter blows up the coast
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 10-9-05

* Tropical Storm Tammy and a stationary low pressure front dumped 6.74 inches of rain in southern Beaufort County this week, all but eliminating the area's annual rainfall deficit in one 48-hour period
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-8-05

* Two months after 700,000 cubic yards of sand were pumped onshore to replenish miles of beach from Hanna park in Atlantic Beach to the St. John's County line, Beaches officials are working to make sure the sand stays put
- Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 10-8-05

* Federal and county officials with beach oversight are hoping for a lull in storm activity that will allow them to restore public beaches. They're also aiming to rebuild and strengthen Gulf Islands' shattered roads that have cut off visitors from some of the area's most popular and pristine beaches
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-8-05

* Boat traffic is slow behind the Isle of Palms these days, but at least it's not stuck.And maybe it won't be for a while.A $2 million project to dredge the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway between Georgetown and Charleston Harbor
- Chaleston Post and Courier, 10-7-05

* A nest of loggerhead sea turtles eggs were stolen from St. Augustine Beach, officials said Thursday
- St. Augustine Record, 10-7-05

* Old St. Joseph''s Point Lighthouse Stood Only Eight Years
- Port St. Joe Star, 9-29-05

* Lifeguards and Jacksonville Beach officials are working to develop a pilot program to help defuse surfers and fishermen jockeying for position at the fishing pier
- Fernandina Beaches Leader, 10-5-05

* Beach users want say on Florida Coastal High Hazard Study Committee
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 10-6-05

* Colleton County will ask the state Attorney General's Office whether it can legally create a district that would tax Edisto Beach at a lower rate than the rest of the county
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-5-05

* The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council last week recommended tighter catch limits for vermilion snapper
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-4-05

* Boat owners on Hilton Head Island could have to pay up to 10 times more for permits to store their vessels on the beach under new regulations the town is considering. Now, the town is considering greatly increasing its fee for an annual permit from $10 to $120
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-40-2005

* A red tide outbreak that began last month in southwest Florida has made its way completely across the state's Gulf Coast to the western end of the Panhandle
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 10-4-05

* A red tide algae bloom plagued Pensacola Area beaches for the third straight day Monday, spreading mild misery to beachgoers, killing fish and prompting health warnings from state and local official
-  Pensacola News Journal, 10-4-05

* The chairman of a key House committee announced Monday that he was withdrawing a bill that would have allowed natural-gas exploration close to Florida's beaches
- Tallahassee Democrat, 10-4-05

* Red tide bloom rolls in at Pensacola Beach. Visitors withstand respiratory irritation to soak up sun
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-3-05

* Few marsh islands eligible for bridges. BEAUFORT -- New standards regulating bridge construction to the state's marsh islands will leave 68 islands within Beaufort County open to possible development
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-1-05

* Nearly three months after Hurricane Dennis wrought havoc on Santa Rosa Island, storm debris along the streets of Navarre Beach and Pensacola Beach is finally disappearing
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-1-05

* The southbound Ashley River drawbridge got stuck partially upright Thursday morning after opening to let a boat pass
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-30-05

* Shrimp rules to change. Georgia DNR panel will vote on 18 issues
-  Brunswick News, 9-29-05

* With the announcement that a developer is the stalking horse bidder on the Durango-Georgia paper mill, the question arises as to what kind of clean-up will be required in order to make that land safe for residential development
- Tribune and Georgia, 9-29-05

* Mayport Naval Station will receive $500,000 for wharf upgrades needed to make Mayport eligible to homeport a nuclear carrier
- Pente Vedrea Beaches Leader, 9-30-05

* NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Beach driving on most of New Smyrna Beach remains questionable for the weekend, but north of Ponce de Leon Inlet is good to go, beach officials said Thursday
- Daytona Beach News Journa, 9-30-05

* With picks, shovels and spades in tow, this group of invasive-plant eradicators quickly scanned the shoreline searching for brightly colored flags marking the location of this landscape’s greatest threat: beach vitex
- Coastal Observer

* Tybee Island under swimming advisory. Routine water quality tests from samples taken Tuesday show the beach water in this area contains a high level of enterococci bacteria
- Savanah Morning News, 9-28-05

* Ignoring Florida's long-standing opposition to offshore drilling, a key U.S. House panel approved legislation Wednesday that could open both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts to oil and natural-gas exploration and production
- Tallahassee Democrat, 9-29-05

* New construction in Escambia County flood zones will have to be 3 feet higher, if a planned ordinance change takes effect. Santa Rosa County already has passed such a requirement
* The Port of Pensacola is enjoying a virtual traffic jam at its five deepwater berths as it takes up some of the slack for Gulf of Mexico ports damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- Pensacola News Journal, 9-27-05

* 68 island could get bridges. New standards regulating the construction of bridges to the state's marsh islands will leave 68 islands within Beaufort County open to possible development
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-26-05

* Building a tall house, one so tall that Folly Beach City Council might have to decide whether it's legal
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-25-05

* Fernandina Beach Commissioners Tuesday voted down two requests that would have led to more than 500 housing units near Amelia Island Parkway, delaying developers' progress until 2006
-  Fernandina Beach News Leader, 9-24-05

* New limits proposed on snapper, grouper
- Charleston Post and courier, 9-24-05

* The Volusia Beach Patrol warns people to be wary of rip currents when wading into the ocean this weekend
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-24-05

* Since dead fish first began washing onto area beaches over two weeks ago, the latest red tide has long overstayed its welcome. The stench overwhelmed the scenic drive along U.S. 98 through Mexico Beach for a solid week
* Cape San Blas Lighthouse: Erosion and Sunken Treasure
- Port St. Joe Star, 9-22-05

* Flagler researches low-cost method to stop beach erosion
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-23-05

* Navarre Beach homeowners are expressing frustration at the slow pace of dune restoration as once again waves generated by a storm hundreds of miles away weaken an already vulnerable beach
- Pensacola News Journal, 9-23-05

* Development forces may soon change the face of the historic waterfront fishing village at Mayport, with condos and Key West-style homes replacing shrimp boats and seafood markets
- Beaches Leader, 9-21-05

* ORMOND BEACH -- In 10 years on Volusia County's beaches, Nick Sharer had never seen a summer quite like this -- so good for surfing, so bad for beach driving About three-fourths of Volusia County Concessionaires Association members reported drops in sales of 50 percent or more
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-21-04

* Area surf on safety streak: No one has drowned on Pensacola Beach in 2 years
- Pensacola News Journal, 9-21-05

* Red tide in Apalachicola Bay has, with a few exceptions, halted the supply of oysters to local consumers, said David Heil, bureau chief of the Bureau of Aquaculture Environmental Services
- Tallahassee Democrat, 9-21-05

* Jasper maintains that it feels no economic impact from Charleston ports and wants a piece of the maritime ports' pie
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-19-05

*  A magnum-force hurricane hitting Northeast Florida and southeast Georgia would shove so much ocean water onto land that it would look like the Atlantic Ocean tipped to one side and spilled across the region
- Florida Times Union, 9-18-05

* On Thursday, the Pier Rats gathered at the end of the new 1,300-foot pier to commemorate the anniversary and share fish tales of glory days spent at Bones Pier
- Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 9-17-05

* With 47 miles of beach and a budget that's stretched thin, Volusia County's Beach Patrol division can't afford to have a lifeguard on every inch of sand, officials said Friday in the aftermath of the county's first drowning this year.
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-17-05

* St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge awash in debris from Hurricane Dennis
- Tallahassee Democrat, 9-17-05

* A Florida red tide bloom continues in northwest Florida this week and extends in a patchy distribution from Bay to Levy counties
-  Florida Marine Research Institute, 9-16-05

* Hurricane Ophelia took a bite out of South Carolina's beaches, particularly at Wild Dunes on the Isle of Palms and the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island.Still, the overall damage could have been much worse
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-15-05

* Most of the Lowcountry's isolated salt marsh islands will likely stay that way for a long time. A committee wrangling over bridge access to 2,400 islands in the South Carolina tidal plain has decided that nine out of ten of them should be admired from afar -- not from a car
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-14-05

* Fernandina Beach Commission-ers reversed a previous decision and approved a conditional use permit for a 36-unit hotel at Main Beach
- Fernandina News Leader, 9-10-05

* High surf churned up by the passing of storm Ophelia continued to pound the shoreline Monday in Volusia and Flagler counties, sending workers scrambling to stave off more erosion in some places
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-13-05

* Pretty soon, visitors will be able to stroll on a fishing pier on both sides of Folly Island. Capping a push to expand water access, town leaders hope to have a fishing pier built and ready to use by the New Year's holiday. This one will lead from the new Folly River Park near the Center Street bridge across a wide area of marsh and overlook a portion of the river
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-11-05

* FLAGLER BEACH -- Florida Department of Transportation workers succeeded in saving parts of State Road A1A from washing out due to Tropical Storm Ophelia, but are losing the fight against pounding waves in other parts of the shoreline
- St. Augustine Record, 9-10-05

* Baiting season helps recreational shrimpers
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-10-05

* Summer Haven's new berm seriously eroded by Ophelia
* Massive erosion hits Flagler Beach
- St. Augustine Record, 9-9-05

* It's shrimp baiting time once again in South Carolina
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-9-05

* Growing Hurricane Ophelia already has sapped up to 5 feet of sand from fast-eroding Hunting Island State Park and likely will continue to damage Lowcountry beaches as it meanders southeast of the Carolinas
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-9-05

* Some of the sand recently dredged up onto Anastasia Island beaches as part of a $14 million project washed away with the tide Wednesday
- St. Augustine Record, 9-8-05

* State road workers scrambled Thursday to replace the sand and stone revetment that Hurricane Ophelia seemed determined to wash away perilously close to the State Road A1A roadbed, but decided to close a block of the road overnight for the safety of motorists
- Daytona News Journal, 9-9-05

* Today in DeLand, the Volusia County Council will review changes to the county's beach management plan, some of them designed to bring in more money for off-beach parking, including a proposal to start charging $3 per day to park at county beachfront parks like SunSplash
- Daytona News Journal, 9-8-05

* Buildings could be capped at 60 feet -- roughly six stories -- along the Intracoastal Waterway if a new plan proposed in the Jacksonville City Council is approved
- Florida Times Union, 9-7-05

* We have posted pictures of most of our rentals that sustained damage. Of the 90 houses we managed before the storm, 37 are gone......... gone as in GONE
- Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 9-3-05

* Coast Guard: Deploying cutter Oak. Twenty-one "Aids to Navigation" team members from bases in four Southeastern states, including the Charleston base, to repair channel markers and reopen ports to get relief supplies
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-6-05

* Three days after storm surge ripped away city blocks of waterfront homes on Dauphin Island and flooded all but a few of Bayou La Batre's homes and businesses, both towns struggled to return basic services to their residents Thursday
- Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 9-2-05

* The 60-day shrimp baiting season opens Friday in South Carolina
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-4-05

* The juvenile shrimp in the nets look like flecks of white gold. The costly fuel being burned to catch them might as well be liquid gold. Hurricane Katrina and the virtual shutdown of shrimping in the Gulf of Mexico might be a lethal shot to the area
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-3-05

* A citizens committee considering rules for access to marsh islands in the state is suggesting that 68 of the smaller islands be allowed to have single-lane bridges that cars can cross
-Charleston Post and couirier, 9-1-05

* Coastal cities bet against nature
* Conditions should be ripe for still another weekend of fun surf. Weakened Tropical Depression Lee should not pose a danger, but with a little luck we could continue to get a fun swell from its churning about well offshore
-Daytona News Journal, 9-2-05

* Jekyll Island Foundation raising funds for Georgia Sea Turtle Center
- Brunswick News, 8-31-05

* As Pensacola Beach reopened to the public at noon Wednesday, people were pleased to see Hurricane Katrina had not caused major damage to businesses
-  Pensacola News Journal, 9-1-05

* Katrina stalls Florida beach restoration
* Oyster industry monitoring red tide in Apalachicola Bay
- Tallahassee Democrat, 9-1-05

* Hilton Head delays action on abandoned boats. The new regulations passed by the Town Council allow the town to remove the boats after giving owners 30 days notice. But details of the regulations still need to be hammered out
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-31-05

* A state committee studying the problem of saltwater intrusion in a coastal aquifer held a three-day meeting on Jekyll Island last week
- Brunswick News, 8-30-05

* Sailors drawn to St. Augustine for the historic bay front may be latching their boats to city-owned moorings in years to come. The City Commission wants to explore using a field of floating devices to help control water troubled by derelict boats and waste disposal
- Florida Times Union, 8-31-05

* A Jacksonville developer wants to build 846 new homes on the largest undeveloped property in St. Augustine Shores
- St. Augustine Record, 8-30-05

* Beachfront property owners have long claimed that Volusia County's turquoise conservation poles are planted illicitly on their dunes -- and so, by extension, are the cars parked just east of them. Now, in a move that could threaten beach driving, the state seems to be taking the pole-haters seriously
- Daytona News Journal, 8-30-05

* Tens of thousands of dead fish Tuesday were strewn along some beaches in Franklin County, further raising concerns about red tide in the area
- Tallahassee Democrat, 8-31-05

* State utility Santee Cooper on Monday started a nine-month project to add a power line between the mainland and Hilton Head Island that will increase power capacity and reliability -- without disturbing ospreys that nest in existing pylons
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online 8-30-05

* Green turtles nest in record numbers at Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge near Melbourne
- Daytona News Journal, 8-28-05

* Higher fuel costs are compounding problems from increased fishery regulations on vermilion snapper, grouper and other Gulf fish
- Pensacola News Journal, 8-28-05

* Turtle volunteer on ATV ticketed at Flagler beach. All-terrain vehicles were among those outlawed from the beach by the County Commission last year
- Daytona News Journal, 8-27-05

* Numerous fish kills totaling thousands of fish or more have been reported across a span of at least 75 miles between Port St. Joe and Taylor County this week, state researchers said Friday
- Tallahassee Democrat, 8-27-05

* Numerous fish kills have been reported this week from northwest Florida in and around St. Joe Bay in Gulf County and from offshore areas between Gulf and Taylor counties
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 8-26-05

* A few days after fishermen at Bohicket Marina and Yacht Club caught and killed a 300-pound shark off the docks, Graack and his divers had to catch up on their work. Unfortunately, their job is cleaning the bottom of yachts at the marina
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-25-05

* Volusia County's plans to build a new lifeguard station at SunSplash Park were ambushed Thursday night at the city's Planning Board meeting
- Daytona News Journal, 8-26-05

* Scallop Festival coming to Port St. Joe September 3-4
- Port St. Joe Star, 8-25-05

* The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program made history this week by hand-placing nearly 28,000 pounds of fossilized oyster shells into Little Sarasota Bay to help restore the oyster population near both Turtle and White beaches
- Tallahassee Democrat, 8-26-05

* On Wednesday, a citizens committee that came together to write new regulations for access to the 2,400 isolated islands in the South Carolina tidal plain tentatively agreed to more restrictive lengths for bridges over public marshes
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-25-05

* Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet relaxed the rules Tuesday for building or expanding private marinas
- Daytone News Journal, 8-24-05

* The Jacksonville Beach Pier's sandbars create some of the best waves in North Florida, making the most of the state's typically small surf
- Florida Times Union 8-23-05

* St. Johns aiming to open doors to beach. Plan to improve oceanfront access includes $450,000 in wooden walkways
- Florida Times Union, 8-22-05

* St. Augustine Beach City Commission wants to explore the possibility of changing the configuration of St. Augustine Inlet so ocean currents would naturally deposit more sand on their beaches
- St. Augustine Record, 8-21-05

* Islands in Lowcountry marshes face fierce development pressure
* A Sea Grant researcher and a South Carolina State Department of Natural Resources biologist are developing a computer modeling program to predict numbers and movements of blue crabs, similar to the models that predict hurricane tracks
* Welcome to the SC Blue Crab Project
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-21-05

* Amid talk of a “pause for planning,” at least one developer is scaling back blueprints for downtown Panama City
- Panama City News Herald, 8-21-05

* Hunting Island State Park had its most successful loggerhead turtle nesting season in 10 years with expectations that numbers will continue to climb after planned nourishment buries stumps and pipes that may have deterred turtles in the past
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-20-05

* Daytona Beach's dreams of reinventing its oceanfront Boardwalk can move forward after a judge Friday upheld efforts to force the sale of three properties for a private development
* An increase in thefts from Ormond Beach as far south as Wilbur-by-the-Sea has prompted the Volusia County Beach Patrol to warn beachgoers to be on the alert
- Daytona News Journal, 8-20-05

* Posey's Oyster Bar has been a cornerstone of the business community for about seven decades. Now that it's at least temporarily closed, morale and the economy are hurting, as the town of 300 people struggles to regain some sense of normalcy in the wake of Hurricane Dennis, which flooded the Wakulla County coast in early July
- Tallahassee Democrat, 8-20-05

* Poachers hit seven loggerhead sea turtle nests on a Hilton Head Island beach, the worst such incident in recent years
- Beaufort Gazette, 8-19-05

* Sand could be flowing onto storm-battered New Smyrna-area beaches in about a month. The Volusia County Council unanimously approved Thursday a $14 million dune restoration project for five miles of badly eroded southern beaches
- Daytona News Journal, 8-19-05

* A divided South Carolina State Ports Authority board said Tuesday it would not become involved in a privately run port project, effectively killing the concept for a joint project with Jasper County
- Island Packet Online, 8-18-05

* Folly Beach renourishment has dropped tons of sand on the surfers' sweet spot, dampening the long waves that used to unravel along the shore like a worn-out beach towel
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-16-05

* Washed-out Old A1A leads to a moratorium on building in a waterfront area on Summer Haven
-Florida Times Union, 8-16-05

* Repairs to 14 miles of storm-damaged roads in two sections of the Gulf Islands National Seashore have cost $35.5 million since 1995, and officials estimate it will take another $27.3 million to get them open again after a double battering in July
- Daytona News Journal, 8-16-05