{"id":296262,"date":"2026-06-04T20:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296262\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:11:16","slug":"everglades-action-day-brings-the-river-of-grass-to-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296262\/","title":{"rendered":"Everglades Action Day Brings the River of Grass to Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Organized by the Everglades Coalition during Florida\u2019s legislative session, Everglades Action Day brought nearly 40 advocates from across the state face-to-face with lawmakers from 47 offices to deliver a clear, unified message. Driving that impact was Everglades Policy Specialist Caitlin Newcamp, who led and energized the effort from start to finish. Under her leadership, advocates from Audubon Florida, partner organizations, chapter members, and supporters showed up informed, coordinated, and ready to engage. Newcamp not only organized the event \u2014 she built a strategic, statewide advocacy push to ensure restoration remained front and center for decision makers.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the participants emphasized:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The importance of full and sustained Everglades funding.\u00a0The need for balanced water management decisions.\u00a0Investments in resilience and storage projects, particularly in vulnerable regions.\u00a0Protection of critical habitat and support for land acquisition programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.audubon.org\/2026-06\/AF_SOTE_Spring2026_v5_web%20(1)%20(1)%20(2).pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article originally appeared in the Spring 2026 State of the Everglades Report.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organized by the Everglades Coalition during Florida\u2019s legislative session, Everglades Action Day brought nearly 40 advocates from across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-296262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}