Smuggling in the Everglades

1. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is proud to acknowledge that it didn’t follow science when recommending a black bear hunt. 2. Our guest this episode is documentary filmmaker Rob Hoovis. In November of 2025, he premiered “Outlaws of the Everglades,” a film detailing the marijuana smuggling pipeline from Central America and the Caribbean that flowed through the 10,000 Islands area of rural southwestern Florida during the 1970s and 80s.

Images: outlawsoftheeverglades.com