How Do You Want Your State Parks to be Used?
Donald Forgione has come up through the ranks and is not a mere political appointee to his position of overseeing our 171 state parks and trails in Florida. We all love our parks and Forgione […]
Back to the Question of Polluters & Public Interest
The Gainesville Sun has published Jake Fuller’s message to taxpayers in the Sunday, June 28 2015 edition. This reference is to the recent article, posted by OSFR here, as it directly bears upon the […]
Florida Water Management Lacks Leadership
“If there was ever a time for bold leadership in water management, it is now. But bold leadership in Florida water management is not in evidence today. … Currently , this leadership is lacking,” says […]
Setting the Record Straight on Scott
Editorial Page Editor Nathan Crabbe of the Gainesville Sun has written an article dealing with criticism that he has received from his writings. Most of the examples he gives deal with environmental protection, water management, land conservation, springs […]
OSFR Pres. Malwitz-Jipson quoted in Sun Article on Nitrates Pollution
DEP regulations are such that they allow dairymen to put about 19 million pounds of nitrates into the ground yearly in the Middle Suwannee, Lower Suwannee and Santa Fe basins. As a partial result, both rivers […]
Declining Aquifers Around the World – Yes, We Are Included
This scary article appeared recently in Vox Energy and Environment. Note the the Santa Fe River is in a downward-spiral aquifer, thanks to our water managers, and our DEP. Note the High Plains Aquifer is rising, […]
SRWMD Takes One Step Forward – Two Steps Backward
Following you will read an article from SRWMD describing how the district will save up to 90,000 gallons per day of water, and up to 32.8 million per year. The cost is $350,000. OSFR thinks this […]
Education – Information – Advocation
Education is the issue at the Florida Association of Counties‘ 2015 Annual Conference in Ponte Vedra June 16-19. The anti-fracking Coalition rented a table for the length of the conference. Yesterday OSFR president Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, […]
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