Archive for September, 2008

  • National Estuaries Day: This Saturday September 27, 2008

    National Estuaries Day: This Saturday September 27, 2008

    If you live in Palm Beach County, Martin County or Indian River County, this is a great weekend to take your kids out to Shepard Park in Stuart where there will be a rally to draw attention to fresh water discharges from lake Okeechobee into the Saint Lucie River.  After the rally there will be [...]

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  • Slash Pine Seedlings

    Slash Pine Seedlings

    Jeff W. a frequent visitor to OSR  mentioned  that he is planting  Slash Pine Tree Seedlings along his fence line and wanted to know how fast they will grow. Jeff, it just so happens that 250 acres of Slash Pine Seedlings were planted last January in a restoration project, not far from your planting site, and [...]

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  • “….new waters are always flowing on to you”

    “….new waters are always flowing on to you”

    It was 1983 when my communications professor  at Arizona State University  stated, “you can never step in the same river twice”. It took me a while but I figured it out. The river is constantly moving, the body of water that is traveling  thru it is not the same, pebbles have shifted, fish have moved, [...]

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  • A Lake Dumps Thru It…The Rise and Fall of Lake Okeechobee

    A Lake Dumps Thru It…The Rise and Fall of Lake Okeechobee

    Today,  murky golden water dropped down into the Saint Lucie River as the Army Corps of Engineers decided to release water from Lake Okeechobee for the first time in over 2 years. The Saint Lucie River was making a comeback and now it may have to fight back again to ward off the wrath of [...]

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