Category: everglades
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New Poll: Florida Legislators Reading List. PLEASE VOTE! and why reading matters.
A few weeks ago I put out a call for books that people thought would be good for our Florida Legislators to read. I got a great response. Thank you all so much. I put up my poll. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the 27 people who cared and took the…
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Poll: Florida Legislators reading list. Yes there will be a quiz.
Poll: Florida Legislators reading list. Yes there will be a quiz. Thanks to everyone that gave me such good suggestions. I have to create a poll so I’m just doing environmental books. So please vote so we can have the top five books and we’ll take it from there.
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Florida Legislators: Here’s your reading list!
#writing101 Florida Legislators: Here’s your reading list! This past year has been very telling. Not only did these people ignore us but they ignored their job and couldn’t seem to get it done. My assignment for writing 101 is to make a list. I’ve been wanting to make THIS list so its win-win. We need…
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River Science: Lesson 1 The C44 Reservoir
River Science: Lesson 1 The C44 Reservoir Guest video blogger: Kenny Hinkle Jr Here’s a little science lesson by my talented friend Kenny Hinkle Jr. from over at Bullsugar.
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Summer Book Club: Paving Paradise Florida’s Vanishing Wetlands and Failure of no Net Loss.
Summer Book Club: Paving Paradise Florida’s Vanishing Wetlands and Failure of no Net Loss by Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite. What is no Net Loss? Is it even on our radar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_net_loss_wetlands_policy “No net loss” is the United States government’s overall policy goal regarding wetlands preservation. The goal of the policy is to balance wetland…
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Atrazine: It brings bad things to life!
We spent a lot of time talking about the discharges to our rivers from Lake O. We talked fertilizer. We have a fertilizer ban. We really don’t talk about pesticides and herbicides and they are everywhere. Invisible to us. Today I want to talk about Atrazine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine “Atrazine is a herbicide of the triazine class.…
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Florida! Let the Good Times Roll!
“*SEVEN MONTHS OF DRINKING WATER: The amount of Lake Okeechobee water drained east and west and out to sea was enough to supply about seven months of drinking water for the nearly seven million people in Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Water plants in southeast Florida churn out about…
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Sinkholes: Its the Geology stupid!
#Florida Sinkholes: Its the Geology stupid! So after I wrote my blog I was wondering if we get sinkholes here in Martin County. Will my house get get sucked up in a hole. Will I be calling 911 saying “I’m in the ground!” Yikes. I live on a ancient sand dune by the Indian RIver…
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Florida Inc: It’s all about the water: muck fires and sinkholes
#Florida Muck Fires: What is that awful smell? http://www.tcpalm.com/news/local-news/martin-county/smoke-from-palm-beach-county-wildfire-smelled-throughout-treasure-coast_55076727 “Earlier Monday, smoke from a more than 10,300-acre wildfire in Palm Beach County could be smelled throughout the Treasure Coast thanks to winds out of the south. The fire began July 8 with a lightning strike in the Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, and is…
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Help Save the Everglades from more destruction, STOP ROGG (River of Grass Greenway).
Please sign the petition! (Even if you don’t live here you could visit) https://www.change.org/p/help-save-the-everglades-from-more-destruction-stop-rogg-river-of-grass-greenway Please share this page! Published on Jun 26, 2015 “These are all images from the ROGG plan that look to be on the path that will be removed. Please sign the petition we have on Change.org to stop this project. https://www.change.org/search?q=rogg…
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