Local residents and tourists have something new to see when visiting Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve: 28 photos that won awards in the 2026 Friends Photo Contest are now on display in the Slough’s ...

A photo of a baby alligator on its mother's head won the Grand Prize in a recent photo contest. The winning photographer, ...

Southwest Florida is an ideal place for nature and wildlife photographers. There is so much natural beauty from the beaches to inland, and a long with those spectacular tracks of land, a wide-array of ...

The Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve in Fort Myers is a wonderland of flora and fauna and wildlife. During a recent stroll along the 1.2-mile boardwalk trail a Pileated Woodpecker provided a ...

At the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, there’s an opportunity to be immersed in nature during a guided wet walk. The Friends of the Six Mile Cypress Slough offer tours through the wetlands that many ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In this case, the beholders were all of the entries in this years' Six Mile Slough Preserve Photo Contest. Honoring Carolyn Babb, the 2025 Six Mile Slough ...

The boardwalk at Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve has rescheduled its temporary maintenance closure. It is unknown when the repairs will take place. The Interpretive Center, nature store and Rock and ...

Southwest Florida's newest arrivals are not your typical baby animals. Instead of fuzzy ducklings or fluffy bunnies, Six Mile Cypress Preserve is now home to baby alligators, capturing the attention ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Eastern screech owl sits in a hollowed out part of a tree at Six Mile Cypress Slough in Fort Myers on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024.