Ichetucknee Update
The gar in this video were photographed last year in February, 2024. This year the Ichetucknee State Park closed for several weeks while a crew removed fallen trees from the park waters. Fallen tree limbs, […]
Mosaic Still Has No Regard for the Environment
Mosaic territory is far from the Santa Fe River basin, but OSFR has been heavily involved in opposing phosphate mining due to its destruction on the environment and the close-to-home threat of HPSII. Mosaic is […]
Water Transfer Not the Solution
Water transfer proposals for the Suwannee River Basin (in which the Santa Fe River is located) occasionally surface. Water transfers almost never achieve what their instigators expect. This is because you cannot take water from an […]
Wastewater Spill near the Santa Fe Swamp
The Santa Fe River begins with the rainwater-fed lakes Santa Fe and Alto over by Waldo. The river then winds its way north through the Santa Fe Swamp. These rainwater fed lakes formed on the […]
Hike Little Awesome Preserve
Please join Our Santa Fe River on a Hike at Little Awesome Preserve. This Saturday 2/22/2025 at 11:00. The hike will be mostly quiet in the style of the Council of All Beings as we attempt to connect with […]
Kim Ross Writes On Climate Change
Impacts from climate change affect us all, including the Santa Fe River basin. Here Kim Ross of ReThink Energy Florida in Tallahassee comments on latest developments and projections. Kim has long been a supporter […]
The Devil and Rum
“The river below ” was the simplistic way I was introduced to our aquifer. I imagined a mirror image of the Santa Fe in triplicate, coursing below the actual river. Instead, limestone caves, and channels, […]
Our Dying Springs
The following video is from the Florida Springs Council. It depicts the heartbreaking scene of reality of North Florida Springs. I began diving these springs in 1977 and I can attest that this was not […]
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