Nature & Wildlife Editor
Beat: Wildlife, Beaches, Boat Tours
Imani writes the island's living calendar: burrowing owls on the vacant lots from February, loggerheads on the sand from May, manatees in the canals when the Gulf cools. She has volunteered on nest monitoring, reports from Rookery Bay and the refuge waters, and treats federal wildlife rules as the law they are rather than as etiquette.
3 guides · 2 news posts
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Long-form
Reported guides to Marco Island, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
Guide
The dolphins in these passes are residents, not visitors, and more than three hundred of them are catalogued by dorsal fin. Some of the boats you can book are doing the cataloguing.
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Guide
Marco sits at the wet, mangrove end of the Everglades rather than the sawgrass end. The best day out here runs east on the Tamiami Trail, not south to Homestead.
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Guide
The good shelling here is not on the beach in front of the towers. It is on keys with no roads, no names anyone uses, and a tide window of about two hours.
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News desk
Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in Marco Island.
How this was written. News published under Imani Brooks's byline was drafted by machine from primary sources — operator notices, government and municipal releases, published schedules — and every factual claim in it was matched to one of those sources before it published. A Marco Island Guide editor can change or pull any of it. Our editorial standards.
Seasonal
Loggerheads nest along Marco's six-mile crescent every summer, and the island's lighting ordinance applies to your balcony as much as to the resort behind it.
Seasonal
Small owls that nest in holes in the ground, in a residential grid, protected by stakes, rope and an unusual agreement between the city, the state and Audubon.