LAKE WALES ― For the seventh time in eight years, Lake Wales boys weightlifting program was victorious in the Polk County Boys Weightlifting Championship Saturday at Lake Wales High School.. It ...

Polk County is close to acquiring another property along the Lake Wales Ridge for conservation. The Polk County Commission voted unanimously last week to approve buying the 649-acre Friedlander ...

Polk County will contribute to the formation of a 602-acre reserve called Lake Marion Scrub ... habitat on the Lake Wales Ridge,” said County ... of the last remaining rosemary scrub ...

The bee's primary home, Lake Wales Ridge, is a 150-mile-long sandy spine running down the center of the state, the remnant of ancient islands in Florida's distant past.

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Only in Florida would an area 300 feet above sea level be called a “highlands.” We even have a place called “Sugarloaf Mountain” and it’s 312 feet above sea level &#82… ...

The bee’s primary home, Lake Wales Ridge, is a 150-mile-long sandy spine running down the center of the state, the remnant of ancient islands in Florida’s distant past.

Thirty-six endangered species that cling to existence in scattered tracts along the Lake Wales Ridge that have somehow escaped the bulldozer or the plow remain in danger despite ambitious efforts ...

First described in 2011, the blue calamintha bee, Osmia calaminthae, was known from only four locations on Lake Wales Ridge until museum researcher Chase Kimmel documented new populations in 2020.

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have found the first nest of Florida’s extraordinarily rare blue calamintha bee and added a new location to its known range: the Ocala National Forest.

The bees hadn't been seen since 2016 and experts thought they might have died out. But researchers found them again in an isolated Florida habitat.