CLEWISTON, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida Everglades are home to snakes and gators, and now they're the setting for a cable show called "Swamp Men." The show takes viewers behind the scenes of an eco ...

Billie Swamp Safari: Everglades eco-tour, Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Clewiston, Fla. (www.swampsafari.com). Airboat rides run daily every half-hour from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; $15 a ...

Then a man named Ed Frank from Naples is credited with inventing the first swamp buggy. The vehicle proved valuable in the Everglades in the 1930s and ‘40s.

Hunters, swamp buggy enthusiasts, politicians, Gladesmen and others are fighting to keep the federal government from giving a wilderness designation to the Big Cypress National Preserve outside of ...