The following was sent by Manasota-88 which has done much to fight the phosphate destruction in Mosaic’s region of Florida. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: […]
Quite an apt title that Mr. Bonasia uses because our pollution laws are written by the polluters and passed by our Citizens United-elected legislators. An apt pair. But a combination that is killing our springs […]
The following is a letter recently sent to the DEP by Dr. Robert Knight of Florida Springs Institute. It lays out the simple truth that the State of Florida is not only not protecting […]
Yes, the State of Florida is killing off its unique treasure of iconic springs. They are doing this by allowing way, way too much fertilizer to be used in agriculture and by not closer […]
We have said before that if you want to see Florida’s future water problems, look to the west. It is not a pretty sight and our dysfunctional “leaders” are incapable of seeing that far, or […]
We find this unacceptable and we are calling out our Department of Environmental Protection to fix this problem. We lived in Tampa from 1963 to 2003 and again since 2019 to present and this is […]
We agree with J. Scott Angle that it will take a lot of science and behavior change to transfer to a sustainable agriculture that will allow the springs to be restored. But we believe it […]
We have posted multiple times on this ill-conceived project. We say ill-conceived because water that is moved from point A to point B, will be missed at point A. We explain the simple cause of […]
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