Happy Thanksgiving to All Our Readers from OSFR
Best Thanksgiving wishes from President Kristin, our Board, our Webmaster Susan and all our great volunteers. We are thankful for many things, not the least of which is we still have a […]
Public Meetings to Protest New Toll Road and The Inevitable Development
What we have here are a few powerful people who, for their personal gain, are imposing their will on Florida citizens who do not want their rural lifestyle urbanized. This is wrong and we […]
Manatees Need Our Protection … From Us
What we would have liked to have seen in this carefully-worded-not-to-offend editorial is a call for funding to stop the pollution points that are killing the manatee food and thus the manatees. Funding is […]
The First Rights of Nature Case Goes to Tribal Court-The Case for Manoomin (Wild Rice).
The sad situation in Florida today is that we do not have enough responsible leaders to protect our springs, rivers and aquifer. This includes our governor, DEP, water district managers, legislators and judges, most of […]
Additional Threat to Manatees — Glysophate
Dr. Robert Knight of the Florida Springs Institute has sent the following email. It seems that on top of the manatees’ current woes of starvation and pollution, we have learned that now we are threatening […]
A Depleted Aquifer Stymied Plans for a Stronach Ranch, Until a Florida Governor Intervened
Stronach, now 89 years old, was active in the Austrian Parliment as recently as 2014. This seems to be an obvious case of money opening doors. Here it even got the St Johns River […]
SJRWMD Survey Results Demonstrate Strong Support for Ocklawaha River Restoration
Following is a press release from the Free the Ocklawaha River Coalition concerning the recent survey of public opinion on the fate of the Ocklawaha River and Rodman Dam. Our water management districts continue to […]
Successful Book Reading
With ideal cool weather, over fifty people turned out to hear readers from the book The Wilder Heart of Florida and OSFR headquarters at Rum 138 on Thursday evening. Of the many authors in the […]
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