Archive for September, 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

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”

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

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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