Big Pine Key could as easily be called Little Deer Key. After all, the roughly 10-square-mile island, 30 miles east of Key West in Florida is known for being home to North America's smallest deer ...

In response to litigation filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed ... It is found only in the pine rocklands of the lower Florida Keys. It used to ...

Bill Ballenberg The water was as murky as memory, but mark and Gretta Sleeper strapped on their fins, face masks and snorkels and eased into a canal on Big Pine Key, Florida, 120 miles south of Miami.