Tag: wetlands

• WILD FOR FLORIDA WILDLIFE

  

  “Why aren’t there any mosquitoes when I visit Florida?” I was once asked. “Where do you go in Florida?” I asked. “To Disney World, Sea World – all those theme parks around Orlando.” I wondered how to reply without bursting this man’s image of “natural” Florida that exists within the gates of “unnatural” worlds made…

  P. C. Zick

  April 15, 2025

  Environmental Concerns, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Trails in the Sand, travel

  alligators, coyotes, Disney World, Florida environment, Florida Fiction Series, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida wildlife, natural Florida, Sunshine State, tourists in Florida, wetlands, wildlife

• Beach Driving and Other Atrocities

  By Patricia Zick @ P.C. Zick Today I’m working on my next novel about Florida and its fragile environment. Native Lands begins when Mangrove Mike notices the sound of machines ripping apart his beloved and sacred Everglades. He brings it to the attention of his friend Barbara, who is an environmental columnist for the Miami…

  P. C. Zick

  July 8, 2013

  Books by P. C. Zick, Ramblings of a Writer

  environment, environmental, Everglades, Florida, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, habitat, loggerhead, natural world, nesting, sea turtle eggs, sea turtles, shorebirds, St. Augustine, wetlands