The following two articles appeared in the Gainesville Sun under the series “Messages from the Springs Heartland” on Dec. 19, 2021. The center article by Doug Stamm was posted here on Dec. 20, 2021. […]
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 […]
Dr. Robert Knight speaks the simple truth regarding our water problems in Florida. The relatively easy and inexpensive solutions he outlines would be effective but would result in a furor of kicking and screaming by […]
Unfortunately, this delegation will not hear from some of “Florida’s leading voices on the environment” that they should be hearing. We could start with the Florida Springs Council and add the Florida Springs Institute. Readers […]
This is a scary follow-up of yesterday’s post on manatee starvation, caused by a lack of food due to water pollution. Not only do we have manatees dying because of pollution, we have sick turtles […]
there is no mention in this article of the cause nor the solution to this problem, which is mostly nutrients from excessive agricultural and urban fertilizer, plus septic tanks. Our Department of Environmental Protection goes […]
We are not experts on manatee habitat, but it seems to us that the main problem is caused by water pollution which is caused by humans. In the history of the manatee in Florida they […]
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