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Signs enforcing Florida Statute 370.041 — a law prohibiting the removal or interference with sea oat and sea grape plants — face outward on Barefoot Beach. There is no single state law prohibiting walking on beach dunes; local municipalities create their own ordinances, such as the Town of Fort Myers Beach’s Beach and Dune Management Ordinance.
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Sanibel beach dunes getting the final step in facelift
Samuel Brucker
The City of Sanibel began the final step of its post Hurricane Ian Beach Recovery project Monday. Find out more about what concluding changes are in store.

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The blue area is where sugar companies want to mine several million tons of rock south of Lake Okeechobee, then fill the hole with water, a proposal that has some environmentalists concerned, fearing it could damage an existing reservoir (outined in red). Drawing is from the proposal that still lacks some approvals.
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Environmentalists leery of plan to blast, pump and mine area south of Lake O
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Companies call their proposal the Southland Water Resource Project, and they say it will help restore the River of Grass. Others fear it will threaten the ‘crown jewel of Everglades restoration.'
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