March 23, 2019 St. George Island–Our Annual Meeting and Dinner at the St. George Island firehouse, featuring Dr. Felicia Coleman as the guest speaker, quickly become standing room only as members joined the Board of Directors for the yearly event which included fabulous bluegrass music by The Flathead Strings Band. In fact, the Low-County […]
By Georgia Ackerman April 12, 2019–Today, Roy Ogles, Mark Ringlever and I conducted a visual survey from Bloody Bluff to Gaskins Landing in Wewahitchka. I was especially interested in checking on several sloughs, including Spider Cut and Douglas Slough. There are over 400 miles of sloughs, streams and lakes in the floodplain of the Apalachicola
By Georgia Ackerman April 11, 2019. Today we motored over from Pine Log, also called Abercrombie Landing, across the river to Acorn Lake. This is a terrific area to visit via kayak or canoe. In fact, it is part of FWC’s paddling trail system. We spotted several swallow-tail kites high above the trees. Joe Crozier
April 7, 2019 Chattahoochee, FL– Athena Salon & Spa kicked off April Earth Month with a power-packed park and boat ramp clean up at Hopkins Landing on Sunday morning. The team of stylists and family members, including salon owner Mary Rolling, swiftly filled numerous trash bags with debris from the river banks and adjacent park.
March 27, 2019 Phoenix– Georgia Ackerman, Riverkeeper and Executive Director of Apalachicola Riverkeeper joined a panel presentation at the 10X Water Summit this week. The summit addressed the realities of water including increased demand, diminishing resources, more frequent inundation, and even questions of retreat pressed by such circumstances. In addition to case studies from across the
“Many hands make light work.” March 31, 2019 Most people consider moving a bit of hassle to a major inconvenience for obvious reasons, such as the sorting, packing and hauling. However, when energetic, caring volunteers are added to the mixture, somehow moving is sort of fun. Really! We moved our office last week thanks to
Every month Apalachicola Riverkeeper eco-outings volunteers lead a hiking or paddling trip in our watershed. In February, we explored the upper Apalachiola River from Chattahoochee to Ocheesee Landing with a pit stop at Aspalaga for lunch. Our small group gathered around a fallen tree to eat lunch and ponder whether the rain would get us. (A light
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In late February, we spent several boating trips conducting visual surveys of the sloughs (pronounced, “slews”), associated with the lower Apalachicola, Brothers and Chipola Rivers. These included Douglas Slough and Spider Cut. According to FWC, there are over 400 miles of sloughs, streams and lakes in the floodplain of the Apalachicola River. Floodplains
Forests of the Apalachicola River region affected by Hurricane Michael by Diane Hines On February 12th, a Hurricane Recovery Workshop was held in Blountstown entitled: Taking the Next Steps to Salvage and Restoration of Forests and Natural Resources Impacted by Hurricane Michael. By a show of hands, more than ten Northwest Florida counties were represented,
Jan 16, 2019– Atlanta area Westminster High School students spent two days in Apalachicola as part of their hands-on education of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers and Bay system. The 9th graders are learning about the connectivity and entirety of the ACF basin.They are visiting various places in the basin. For example, they also traveled north of
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