The following comments are by Columbia Country Observer columnist Stew Lilker regarding the Columbia County Commissioners’ meeting where they discussed Rum Island Park. For years the park was used very little, then a few […]
Florida has done well with its state parks, but they are continually threatened by development. Springs and rivers within the parks have not done well because our DEP and water management agencies are allowing […]
A few years back OSFR was criticized for opposing fracking because few thought fracking would come go Florida. Think again, this fight is not going away. Listen to this below, it is such a […]
VoteWater, one of our favorite environmental organizations, writes below how laws get passed in the Florida Legislature. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot […]
A popular delaying tactic to avoid action used by so called “leaders” is to request funds and time to “study” the issue, often to discover what is already known many times over. This has […]
The State of Florida has donated $3.2 million to Mote Marine Lab which we believe would be much better used to fight the sources of harmful algal blooms. The State, however, is reluctant to offend […]
OSFR has a long history of fighting not only small private water companies, huge corporations such as Nestle and BlueTriton, as well as agencies such as the DEP and the Forest Service. Even though […]
Florida’s leaders have not been faced yet with the problem of no water. The water planners for Florida are unable to make realistic projections for future water availability. They try to make water available where […]
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