Big Cypress National Preserve

Recipients of the 2002 NPS Environmental Achievement Awards

The National Park Service, the National Park Foundation, BMW of North America, the U.S. Department of Energy, concessioners, and gateway communities have collaborated to provide new technologies for travel options to and around national parks. As part of this public-private partnership, BMW of…

In Big Cypress National Preserve, a threatened shrub and its common cousin look identical. A scanning electron microscope told them apart, and showed the rare one was far more widespread than anyone knew.

A Park Service museum specialist on the art held by Florida's five national parks — a woodcut from Big Cypress, a mural of de Soto's army, and an untitled Everglades watercolour.