By Erin Nixon September 5, 2025: Hi! My name is Erin Nixon, and I’m a senior at Florida State University studying Marketing with a minor in Environment and Society. This summer I had the privilege of serving as a Sustainability Fellow through a partnership between FSU Sustainable Campus and Apalachicola Riverkeeper. The Fellow’s program connects

By Cameron Baxley, Apalachicola Riverkeeper September 4, 2025: This week I had the lucky assignment of visiting one of our watershed’s many unique spots: Little St. George Island, also known as Cape St. George. Managed by the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (ANERR), this barrier island is basically prime real estate for sea turtles, shorebirds,

By Caitlin McCauley August,12, 2025–Apalachicola Riverkeeper’s monthly volunteer cleanup at Mill Pond was on August 9th. Mill Pond gets its name from back in the day when it was a sawmill where timber was processed after coming down river. If you visit today, you will see numerous shrimp boats docked. Locals and tourists alike enjoy

Apalachicola Riverkeeper has fought a series of oil and gas drilling permits in recent years. Updates are listed here chronically, with the newest information at the top. Scroll through the full page for more background and history on oil drilling in the Apalachicola River Basin.  UPDATE****July 16, 2025 Clearwater Land and Minerals has filed a

by Doug Alderson August 3, 2025–Not only is Chattahoochee’s River Landing Park beautiful, it is historic, going back thousands of years. And for the last several years, it’s the place where our annual RiverTrek begins, so it has sentimental value for those of us who have paddled the river in its entirety. That’s one reason

By Doug Alderson July 2025–What better way to spend a hot July day than relaxing in 68-degree spring water! Because of the risk of afternoon thunderstorms, we shifted our July Chipola River kayaking trip to Merritt’s Mill Pond near Marianna and received no complaints. The pond features several clear springs, including the only first magnitude

July 29, 2025 By Cameron Baxley and Georgia Ackerman Update: Apalachicola Riverkeeper v. Florida DEP and Clearwater Land and Minerals Apalachicola Riverkeeper secured the first legal win of its kind in Florida against oil and gas drilling. We successfully challenged Clearwater Land and Minerals’ permit application, preventing them from drilling in the Apalachicola River’s floodplain.