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The appeals court review is now one of four legal battles challenging the legality of the operations of the facility built on an airstrip in the Big Cypress National Preserve in late June.
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Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
In 2003, 21-year-old Katharine Lampman was fatally crushed under a moving art car, while plane crashes at the temporary airstrip and a truck rollover caused additional injuries.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
There are drug shipments via the Orinoco River and by air through clandestine airstrips, flights from Apure to Central America, and so on.
—Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
Environmental groups sued in June to stop the facility, which opened in July on an airstrip in Ochopee’s Big Cypress National Preserve.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025
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Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
In 2003, 21-year-old Katharine Lampman was fatally crushed under a moving art car, while plane crashes at the temporary airstrip and a truck rollover caused additional injuries.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
There are drug shipments via the Orinoco River and by air through clandestine airstrips, flights from Apure to Central America, and so on.
—Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
Environmental groups sued in June to stop the facility, which opened in July on an airstrip in Ochopee’s Big Cypress National Preserve.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Airstrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airstrip. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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airstrip
noun
air·strip
-ˌstrip 
: a runway without normal air base or airport equipment
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