environmental issues Archive

Football, Beer and Food

By Bart Colucci Open Space Restoration combines nature with fiction, so to get the most out of each writing here is a brief trackline for this story: Global Warming has yet to be proven and it is now being referred to as Climate Change. The lobsters with football helmets on their claws, Zack, Brad, Royal [...]
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Loxahatchee River

Lyrics by Wyatt Fulton Ebb Lowchowhatchee thru the land of the Jobe, Run Lowchowhatchee by the Black Bear and Panther you flow. Ebb Lochahatchee the Seminole at your edge, Drift Lochahatchee halting Jesup’s men, Chorus: Go son tell the story, carry our river thru, keep her running wild and her golden water too. Go son tell the story, [...]
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Loxahatchee Walgreens by Wyatt Fulton

Open Space Restoration combines nature with fiction, so to get the most out of each writing here is a brief trackline for this story: The Wood Stork, Indigo Snake and Gopher Tortoise are protected species in Florida. Coco Plum, Muscadine Grapes and Palmetto Seeds are found in the wild and are edible. There is a Walgreens [...]
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Cows, Global Warming and the Art of Moodoo Economics

It is not often that I get a chance to commune with domesticated nature, but during the last few weeks I have been working at a 150 acre cattle ranch removing exotic vegetation out in Okeechobee County. An unexplainable sense of guilt waifs towards me as I drive into the methane gas abyss. Circumventing [...]
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Taking it to the Swamp – Barley Barber Revisited

This January a protest was staged at the entrance of Barley Barber Swamp in Martin County Florida. Barley Barber is currently under the stewardship of Florida Power and Light. The Protest was held to ask FP&L to re-open the swamp for public use and for FP&L to provide adequate and unbiased proof as to the [...]
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