appreciation

The Apalachicola River Basin is known as one of the most biodiverse places in the United States. But what does biodiversity mean? As it turns out, there is more than one answer.

In this video of our latest EcoAdventure down the Wacissa, someone made a comment that, a month after we taped it, has biologists, DEP officials, and Green Guides aiding us on a quest to understand where all the limpkins at Wakulla Springs went.

Part two of our Green Guide EcoAdventure takes us down the Wacissa River. One of our Guides was George Weymouth, a painter, sculptor, and arrowhead maker with an intense eye for detail. Watch this web exclusive video to see how he plucks a scene from his memory and layers on feathers, scales, and ripples.

Excerpts of Hot Tamale’s song, “Wakulla Green,” were featured on our latest EcoAdventure: Green Guides and the Lost City of Magnolia. Here is the song in its entirety.

Beaches and theme parks bring a lot of money to the state of Florida. But tourism isn’t all sunburns and mouse ears. Wakulla County is cashing in on a growing industry in our state: ecotourism.

In the winter, both the tourists and most of the animals have made themselves scare in the intertidal region of St. Joseph Bay. It’s an entirely different landscape than summer vacationers are used to, and one that can be a challenge if you’re kayaking. Dr. Randall Hughes (FSUCML) and Dan and Debbie VanVleet (Happy Ours) guide us through winter in the bay.

The thing about visiting wild places is that they are, in fact, wild. So you have to go prepared. Kent Wimmer of the Florida Trail Association tells us what to bring when you go hiking.

Audio from the October 6 Perspectives broadcast on Rivertrek 2011. Ten paddlers set out on a five day trip to raise awareness about the Apalachicola River, a body of water that supports life along its basin and into Apalachicola Bay.