/tags/dry-tortugas-national-park Dry Tortugas National Park en-US SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:00:00 GMT /environment/2025-08-20/national-parks-censorship-history-trump-executive-order In Florida’s national parks, exhibits that detail slavery, U.S. invasions and the environmental toll of industrialization have been flagged by National Park Service staff for review under a presidential directive called “Restore Truth and Sanity to American History.â€� Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:00:00 GMT /environment/2025-08-20/national-parks-censorship-history-trump-executive-order Carla Mendez /environment/2025-03-10/national-parks-record-attendance-trump-layoffs As South Florida national parks reckon with staff layoffs from the White House, the latest visitor data shows attendance steadily rebounding and in some cases breaking records following the COVID-19 shutdown. Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:00:06 GMT /environment/2025-03-10/national-parks-record-attendance-trump-layoffs Jenny Staletovich /environment/2024-10-25/dry-tortugas-national-park-book A new book Dry Tortugas: Stronghold of Nature from a native Florida Keys photographer captures beauty and change in one of the country's most remote National Parks. Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:00:00 GMT /environment/2024-10-25/dry-tortugas-national-park-book Julia Cooper /environment/2023-05-03/underwater-cemetery-found-off-dry-tortugas-national-park Archeologists have found the remains of a 19th-century quarantine hospital and cemetery on a submerged island in Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park in the Gulf of Mexico. Wed, 03 May 2023 13:30:00 GMT /environment/2023-05-03/underwater-cemetery-found-off-dry-tortugas-national-park AP /environment/2023-03-10/repair-plan-in-the-works-for-dry-tortugas-fort-damaged-by-hurricanes-irma-and-ian Five years after Hurricane Irma damaged Fort Jefferson, one of the park's most popular attractions, the National Park Service is moving foward with repairs. Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:54:24 GMT /environment/2023-03-10/repair-plan-in-the-works-for-dry-tortugas-fort-damaged-by-hurricanes-irma-and-ian Jenny Staletovich /news/2023-01-13/up-to-100-000-per-boat-the-complex-task-of-removing-abandoned-migrant-vessels-from-keys-fragile-ecosystem Nonstop migrant landings in the Florida Keys has overwhelmed federal law enforcement agencies. But the county must deal with the boats left behind in an already fragile environment. Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT /news/2023-01-13/up-to-100-000-per-boat-the-complex-task-of-removing-abandoned-migrant-vessels-from-keys-fragile-ecosystem Gwen Filosa /immigration/2023-01-03/hundreds-of-migrants-land-at-dry-tortugas-national-park Over the weekend, 300 migrants arrived at the sparsely populated Dry Tortugas National Park. The park was closed so that law enforcement and medical personnel could evaluate the migrants before moving them to Key West. Tue, 03 Jan 2023 12:15:00 GMT /immigration/2023-01-03/hundreds-of-migrants-land-at-dry-tortugas-national-park The Associated Press /news/2021-06-02/coral-disease-reaches-the-remote-tortugas For more than five years, a disease has been wiping out corals that provide the foundation for Florida's reef tract. Now it's reached the most remote and healthy area of the reef. Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:25:29 GMT /news/2021-06-02/coral-disease-reaches-the-remote-tortugas Nancy Klingener /news/2018-12-26/national-parks-are-open-during-shutdown-but-facilities-like-bathrooms-may-be-closed The Department of the Interior is one of the parts of the federal government affected by the current shutdown. But you can still visit South Florida's… Wed, 26 Dec 2018 13:11:23 GMT /news/2018-12-26/national-parks-are-open-during-shutdown-but-facilities-like-bathrooms-may-be-closed Nancy Klingener /news/2017-05-15/lonely-no-more-tortugas-croc-gets-seaplane-ride-to-everglades Cletus the crocodile may be lonely no more.The American crocodile that showed up at the Dry Tortugas in 2003 was captured and loaded onto a seaplane over… Mon, 15 May 2017 19:44:39 GMT /news/2017-05-15/lonely-no-more-tortugas-croc-gets-seaplane-ride-to-everglades Nancy Klingener