DEP Treats Chemours With Kid Gloves
Chemours has long been a repeat violator of mining rules and polluter of downriver water ways and wetlands. Their issues date back decades, having been put under a consent order by the DEP in 1997 […]
Good News On Guana
Rarely, but very rarely, advocacy brings results. Such is the case with the land swap in the SJRWMD with the mysterious newly formed land corporation. They are trying to hide the identify of that group. […]
The Silencing of Advocates
A very unsettling precedent, a bit similar to the case of Christy McElroy. Read the original article here in The Invading Sea. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a […]
Inspiration For Grassroots Advocacy
Once one ventures into the morass of grassroots advocacy it doesn’t take long to find out that most battles are lost and wins are very few. Notwithstanding this fact, advocates push on with resiliency because […]
WWALS Wins Rivers Alive Adopt-A-Stream Cleanup Award
Sister group to OSFR and home of Suwannee RiverKeeper John Quarterman has again been deservedly honored by this award. WWALS is a very active grassroots organization important to Florida as well as Georgia for its […]
Loss of a Good Friend
With deepest sympathy we have lost one of our own this week. If the Santa Fe River was threatened, Jill McGuire was always one of the first people we would call to activate community […]
A Springs Event Not to Be Missed–April 1, 2023
This is a rare opportunity to learn many new things about our springs. Many people in Florida remain unaware of the plight of our dying springs and rivers because of our greenwashing governor, DEP and […]
This Time in Florida, the Davids Beat Goliath in an Environmental Battle
We thank our favorite columnist Craig Pittman for this well-researched article exposing the proposed HPS II mine as a candidate for the museum of bad ideas. Ironically, on the day HPS II withdrew their […]
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