Guides @ UF: Florida's Waterways: Environmental Agencies

Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Florida Forever
Florida’s premier conservation and recreation lands acquisition program, a blueprint for conserving natural resources and renewing Florida’s commitment to conserve the state’s natural and cultural heritage.
Ecosystem Restoration Programs
Includes protection, assessment, restoration, and policy-making on Florida's water resources, including the Everglades.
Office of Environmental Accountability and Transparency
Created in 2019 and charged with ensuring key water quality objectives are clearly communicated to the public, as well as, organizing agency resources and scientific expertise, data and research to focus on and solve complex challenges
Office of Water Policy
Addresses statewide water management issues in coordination with the water management districts and other agencies.
Division of Water Resource Management
Responsible for implementing state laws providing for the protection of the quality of Florida’s drinking water, ground water, rivers, lakes, estuaries and wetlands; reclamation of mined lands; and the preservation of the state’s beach and dune systems.

Florida Environments Online
Florida Environments Online contains both digital full text materials and research bibliographies about the ecology and environment of Florida. Digitized materials include more than 200 seminal texts on species and ecosystems selected by scientific experts throughout the state of Florida and digitized specifically for the Linking Florida's Natural Heritage project.
Florida Climate Institute
The Florida Climate Institute (FCI) is a multi-disciplinary network of national and international research and public organizations, scientists, and individuals concerned with achieving a better understanding of climate variability and change.
Florida Conservation Coalition
The Florida Conservation Coalition is devoted to protecting and conserving Florida’s land, fish and wildlife, and water resources that are essential to the well-being and quality of life of the residents of this state, and for its long-term economic prosperity.
Florida Environmental Organizations
A directory of various organizations dedicated to the environmental mission.