The refuge was launched with a donation of just 10 acres of land from the US-based Nature Conservancy, but could eventually grow to more than 150, 000 acres, connecting with conservation land near Naples, 175 miles to the southwest, and on through to the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park that extends to the southern tip of the peninsula.

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So big is the option plan at Cypress that if all options were exercised, employees would own a fourth of the company (called, in options parlance, the "overhang").

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"Cypress Hill got me started as far as my first big name Eminem put me over the top, " he tells Norris.

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Bridges knows its twists and turns, its shallows and cypress stands perhaps better than anyone -- he even knows where the big bass hunker down.

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