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Cape Coral issues burn ban as of Jan. 2; most fire situations prohibited
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Effective Friday, January 2, Cape Coral is issuing a temporary burn ban to limit fire hazards within the City.

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Mom F23 keeps a watchful eye Tuesday on eaglet E26 and the as yet unpipped send egg in the Bayshore Road nest in North Fort Myers.
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Is a Christmas miracle likely? Only time will tell for eagles as nest's second egg remains unhatched
Michael Braun
If you've watched the goings on at the American bald eagle nest along Bayshore Road in North Fort Myers then you are one of more than 231 MILLION viewers of the Southwest Florida Eagle Cam over the years. And you are well aware that tragic and positive outcomes go hand-in-hand there.
The 80-acre Bill Coy Preserve was purchased by the Conservation Charlotte land protection program county voters approved in 2006; along the northern section of Buck Creek on the Cape Haze Peninsula, the preserve is native scrubby flatwoods and mesic pine flatwoods, which transistion into coastal hammock and mangrove swamp as its waters flow into Lemon Bay
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