OSFR Annual Membership Meeting 2022

May 27, 2022 Advocacy, SOLUTIONS, Volunteering, Who We Are 1 Comment

May 25, 2022 Dear Advisors, Board and OSFR members, Thank you all for your support! This evening at our annual membership meeting we voted in our new slate of officers and directors. We are off […]

Why I Donated Land to the Alachua Conservation Trust to Help the Santa Fe River

April 25, 2022 Conservation, Land Purchases, Environmental (Solutions) Leave a Comment

Your historian is proud to have been a close neighbor of Martha Strawn for 17 years. Her husband, Bill Latham, is a former board member of OSFR. Both love and care for the Santa Fe, […]

Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson Speaks on OSFR’s History and the Environment

April 24, 2022 State Government Threats, Other Environmental Threats Leave a Comment

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida has conducted over six thousand five hundred interviews and produced over one hundred fifty thousand pages of transcriptions. OSFR’s Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson was interviewed for […]

Looking For a Few Volunteers to Help the Santa Fe River

April 15, 2022 Volunteering Leave a Comment

Here is your chance to help the Santa Fe River and our springs and aquifer! OSFR is looking for a few volunteers to help with the following: WE NEED YOUR HELP tabling at the […]

2022 FSC Springs Summit, Crystal River-

April 11, 2022 Events (Advocacy), Miscellaneous, Events (Education), Films & Videos, Presentations (speaking, PowerPoint, forums), Volunteering Leave a Comment

Representative Anna Eskamani, popular keynote speaker at the banquet, addresses the audience. The springs summits are back after Covid. Previous summits held in Ocala were always educational and fun. Crystal River continued this high […]

A Great OSFR RIVERFEST

March 28, 2022 Education, Events (Education), Volunteering Leave a Comment

Thanks to the huge crowds that came out to celebrate the Santa Fe River on a perfect Sunday, RiverFest was the best ever! As were the songs; nine new ones this year. We needed nine […]

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VOLUNTEERS FOR RIVERFEST- JOIN US SATURDAY, MARCH 12 HELP THE SANTA FE RIVER

March 9, 2022 Advocacy, Education, Events (Advocacy), Events (Education), Volunteering Leave a Comment

RiverFest Volunteer Event Meeting at Rum 138 Saturday, March 12th, 2022, at 3-4 pm.. 2070 SW CR 138, Fort White. Volunteers receive free event t-shirt or tank and entry into the RiverFest Singer/Songwriting contest Volunteers […]

Gainesville’s First Environmental Book Club Makes a Splash for Water Preservation

January 29, 2022 Education Leave a Comment

Hats off to OSFR board member David Vaina for initiating this excellent way to further educate and make known our water problems in Florida. Many people have no clue that our springs and rivers are […]

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OSFR Annual Membership Meeting 2022

Why I Donated Land to the Alachua Conservation Trust to Help the Santa Fe River

Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson Speaks on OSFR’s History and the Environment

Looking For a Few Volunteers to Help the Santa Fe River

2022 FSC Springs Summit, Crystal River-

A Great OSFR RIVERFEST

VOLUNTEERS FOR RIVERFEST- JOIN US SATURDAY, MARCH 12 HELP THE SANTA FE RIVER

Gainesville’s First Environmental Book Club Makes a Splash for Water Preservation

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