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Hooked on Wyatt Fulton

The Atlantic Ocean was flat as Wyatt’s 16 ft. Carolina Skiff gently rocked side to side just south of the Jupiter Inlet. The air was surprisingly still and quiet, broken up by an osprey scouting the shoreline for its next meal. I had just switched sides of the skiff and with fishing rod in hand threw [...]
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Guess the Plant and Win Susan Casey’s Book, The Devil’s Teeth

I first noticed this southeastern native plant a few years ago but could never figure out what it was, the tan fibers along the leaves are similar to what you would find on a Washingtonia Palm frond. (pictured below) Last week I noticed the plant for sale by a few nurseries at The Landscape Show in [...]
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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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