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Everglades

A woman taking a photo of a python wrapped around her leg

Land & Conservation

Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win

A group of cypress trees in a swamp with a purple sky

Land & Conservation

The Gainesville conservationist captured roaming Florida panthers, rainbows over tree islands, and basking alligators in the name of saving the “river of grass”

Champions of Conservation

No matter the personal cost, fishing captain Benny Blanco shows up for the Everglades

This Land

Rebirth and reunions in the River of Grass