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Florida Fishing News - Capt. Steve Horowitz of Miami, Florida Named Orvis Endorsed Saltwater

Capt. Steve Horowitz of Miami, Florida Named Orvis Endorsed Saltwater Fly Fishing Guide of the Year for 2008 (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
At their annual Eastern Endorsed Operations Rendezvous, The Orvis Company announced Capt. Steve Horowitz as their Saltwater Fly Fishing Guide of the Year. Capt. Steve has been a member of the Orvis Endorsement Program since 2005 and is the only Endorsed Guide in the Miami area.

New lawsuit filed to reclassify Florida loggerhead sea turtles as "endangered" (Orlando Sentinel)
Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit today against the federal government, pressing the question of whether Florida s loggerhead sea turtles should be reclassified as endangered.

Florida Homebuilders Association wants wood stork reclassified from endangered to threatened (Naples Daily News)
The Florida Homebuilders Association is asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take a first step toward possibly removing the wood stork from the federal endangered species list. In a petition filed today, property rights advocacy group Pacific Legal Foundation says the wood stork should be reclassified from endangered status to only threatened.