Here is an excellent op-ed explaining why this easy-way-out solution is a terrible idea. This inexcusable situation has come to be because our DEP has failed us. They see their mission as protecting industry at […]
See the original article with photos here in the Gainesville Sun. It will appear in the hard copy Sunday, August 22, 2021. Unless farming methods change radically, Florida’s springs and rivers are doomed Jim Tatum Guest […]
Once again this is about Tallahassee taking away the citizens’ rights and the DEP as a destructive agency for our waters. This is about the DEP very carefully avoiding hitting the sources of pollution and […]
Today is dark and rainy, the river is swollen from the bounty of rainfall we have received this summer and
We have already expressed our opinion of this crackpot idea. Read the original article here in the Gainesville Sun. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, […]
Our federal Environmental Protection Agency has the obligation under the Clean Water Act and those Acts listed below to protect our environment but it is not doing its job. The people of the United States […]
Thanks to John Moran for permission to use his photos below as we re-post this article about Merrillee and the Santa Fe River. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is […]
Your historian is a relative newcomer when it comes to trying to protect our springs and rivers. We have been working on that less than a decade but we are sorry to say we have […]
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