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• Unnavigable but quite walkable

  Hint:  They are not my footprints ...
  
  Nor was this photo taken this year.
  
  Spring 2011
  The bridge in the background is Tamiami Trail, looking north.
  
  This photo was taken in the dried down Turner River in spring of last year.
  
  
  I know what [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 28, 2012, 7:50pm in Environment

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• Killing wild pigs in Florida: legal vs. illegal

  Last May, Janice and Ashley Ramirez (mother and daughter) were arrested and charged with cruelty to animals and fighting/baiting animals after a video appeared online of the women encouraging two dogs to attack a wild pig whose mouth had been taped shut. The violent, gruesome five minute video was filmed [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at March 28, 2012, 5:33pm in Environment

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• Wood stork's eye view of wayside

  Top photo: Can you see the Turner River's headwater pools?
  Bottom photo: Can you see the filled in section of canal?
  
  Both photos are looking south.
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 28, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Deering Festival a valet success

  What a day we had on Sunday at the Deering Seafood Festival! We parked 268 bikes, a record turnout. Thanks to wonderful volunteers Marc and Judith Bell, Ana Browne and son Gustavo, Stuart Grant, August Neal, and Eric Tullberg for their generous gifts of time and energy. They were a [...]

  From Green Mobility Network - Active personal transportation for a better South Florida at March 28, 2012, 11:58am in Living, Environment

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• Deering Festival valet a success

  What a day we had on Sunday at the Deering Seafood Festival! We parked 268 bikes, a record turnout. Thanks to wonderful volunteers Marc and Judith Bell, Ana Browne and son Gustavo, Stuart Grant, August Neal, and Eric Tullberg for their generous gifts of time and energy. They were a [...]

  From Green Mobility Network - Active personal transportation for a better South Florida at March 28, 2012, 11:58am in Living, Environment

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• How Turner River got its water back?

  HP Williams Wayside is more than a boardwalk:
  
  It’s also the source of the Turner River, too.
  
  Turner River gets its water
  from HP Williams Wayside Canal
  March 2012
  The longer story is that the canal (at HP Williams) stole the water from the river first before [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 27, 2012, 9:10pm in Environment

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• To touch or not to touch sharks - that is the question...

  
  ... that flares up every so often.
  My good pal Mike Neumann abhors these discussions, however, he posted two most eloquent and well balanced blogs on the subject which are worth to be read by those who dive with sharks. I won't participate in these' [...]
  From OceanicDreams at March 27, 2012, 7:50pm in Environment, Photography and Video

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• We are visitors in the swamp

  The swamp is the gators' home
  ' [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 27, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Alligator tracking chart

  What’s that famous rule of photography?
  
  If you set out in the morning to photograph a sea horse you’ll be searching all day (if not all year) to a fruitless end. On the other hand, if you have a camera ready, and without even looking run into a sea [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 26, 2012, 9:54pm in Environment

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• Share the road, share the sidewalk

  Sharing is meant to be a two-way behavior. The writer of the note here understands it very well. Hers is the kind of awareness that we hope to build through the SafeStreetsMiami campaign. The note is shortened slightly and the author's name left out by request.
   

  Just thought I would [...]

  From Green Mobility Network - Active personal transportation for a better South Florida at March 26, 2012, 6:20pm in Living, Environment

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