New university, town get wetland permits

Ave Maria University and its neighboring town have cleared their last big hurdle with federal environmental permitting agencies -- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wetlands permit gives the go-ahead to eventually cover some 5,000 acres of farm fields and pastures north of Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and which weighed concerns about wetlands destruction, water quality and habitat for the endangered Florida panther and crested caracara - Aug. 22, Naples Daily News