Fertilizer Causes Largest Ever Dead Zone

August 3, 2017 Water Quality Threats 1 Comment

Growing our food supply in the Mississippi basin is killing life in the Gulf of Mexico. It is ironic that supplying food to sustain life is killing it down the river. Most […]

Mosaic Overflight Part 5 Riverview Gypstacks & the [Polluted] Alafia River

August 2, 2017 Miscellaneous, THREATS, Environmental Threats, Environmental Threats - Mining 1 Comment

The Alafia River at its mouth near Gibsonton. This river is Florida’s shame. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Mosaic’s radioactive, contaminated water that leaked from a sinkhole, is being diluted and dumped into the Alafia […]

Mosaic Overflight Part 4 Golf Courses & Coal Piles

July 31, 2017 Environmental Threats, THREATS, Environmental Threats - Mining Leave a Comment

Miles away from everything, far from houses and farms, Mosaic decided to build an up-scale resort with award-winning golf courses as a showplace for reclaimed land potential. The result is Streamsong, a golf and spa […]

Mosaic Overflight Part 3 Draglines & Wastelands

July 30, 2017 THREATS, Environmental Threats, Environmental Threats - Mining 1 Comment

Phosphate mining is an issue of extremes–nothing is small nor unimpressive. The area is vast, the destruction more so, the huge sinkhole is chilling to look upon, the wasteland is devastation, and the machinery is […]

Gambling with Mother Nature

July 30, 2017 Environmental Threats - Climate Change Leave a Comment

In just the past year we have seen a huge difference in awareness of climate change of the people in Florida and other areas. Ironic and tragic that our government, both state and federal have […]

Mosaic Overflight Part 2

July 29, 2017 Miscellaneous, Environmental Threats, THREATS, Environmental Threats - Mining 4 Comments

We continue with our report on the single largest destruction to our Florida wetlands, water quality and quantity, and wildlife habitat, which is phosphate mining. Mine companies control over 400,000 acres in Florida mostly in […]

Mosaic Overflight, Part 1

July 28, 2017 Environmental Threats, THREATS, Environmental Threats - Mining 3 Comments

Thanks to several people, not sure who they all are, your historian was able be on board a flight over Mosaic mine south and east of Tampa on July 27, 2017. Some of those people […]

Toxic Algae Close to Home

July 27, 2017 Water Quality Threats Leave a Comment

The Florida Times Union of Jacksonville writes of toxins in nearby Clay County. Read the article here. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. -A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot […]

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Fertilizer Causes Largest Ever Dead Zone

Mosaic Overflight Part 5 Riverview Gypstacks & the [Polluted] Alafia River

Mosaic Overflight Part 4 Golf Courses & Coal Piles

Mosaic Overflight Part 3 Draglines & Wastelands

Gambling with Mother Nature

Mosaic Overflight Part 2

Mosaic Overflight, Part 1

Toxic Algae Close to Home

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