Amendment Nullifies SB1758
The following article from TC Palm describes the committee hearing of this fine bill yesterday, March 20, 2011. As written by Sen. Mayfield it was a great start to improving our useless BMAPs, but it […]
OSFR Presents to Gilchrist County Commissioners
OSFR President Mike Roth gave a PowerPoint presentation to the Gilchrist commissioners today March 18, 2018 asking for a resolution banning gypstacks, among other items. President Mike was accompanied by Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, Kristin Rubin, […]
5th Annual Clean Creek Revival
The 5th annual Clean Creek Revival took place today in Gainesville, sponsored by Current Problems and assisted by about 100 volunteers. Gainesville creeks are a huge container’s worth cleaner of human garbage today, thanks to […]
The Flow Beneath Us
The following article appeared in the March, 2019 issue of Florida Sportsman. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. -A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot be brought back- March 1st, 2019 The […]
New Anti-Mine Signs Go Up
Thanks to Suwannee St. Johns Group of Florida Sierra Club, we have seven new signs in mine territory, bringing awareness to the threat of the proposed phosphate mine. And thanks to OSFR for manpower and […]
Lakes’ advocates praise the Black Creek Water Project
Long in the making, this project has finally received its funding. This is a water transfer project, moving water from one place to another to keep lakes full and property values up along with […]
“Mining Phosphorus” at Hippodrome Sat. Feb.16, 7 pm.–
Alan Toth’s documentary “Mining Phosphorus” will be shown in Gainesville at the Hippodrdome Theatre, located in downtown Gainesville at 25 SE 2nd Pl. Thanks go to OSFR board member Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, whose efforts to […]
Rebuttal to Mosaic Propaganda
Andy Mele, Suncoast Waterkeeper and active opponent of phosphate mining, has written a rebuttal to Mosaic’s representative Russell Schweiss who had two recent articles in the Arcadian which painted a rosy, but misleading picture of […]
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