Originally published: March 18, 2021
Globalization, economic downturns, online shopping, pandemics…for small-town America, the hits just keep coming. Havana, Florida is one of those small towns toughing it out and refusing to give up. Through the 1950s and ’60s, Havana was rolling...
WFSU's Suzanne Smith follows the organizers of the LeMoyne Chain of Parks Fine Arts Festival to see what they have to do to put on this annual event. The Festival raises money for the LeMoyne Center for Visual...
The northern 30 ore 40 miles of the Apalachicola River is lined with bluffs and ravines. Here, more rocks and fossils are exposed than in any other place in Florida. On the first day of RiverTrek 2016,...
Many people in our community may be more familiar with the Piney Z Lake than Lower Lake Lafayette, but the two are actually only separated by an earthen dam. WFSU’s Rob Diaz de Villegas heads out on the waters...
We search the Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve for north America's largest native snake. The Eastern indigo snake was once common in north Florida, but has all but disappeared from the panhandle. The Nature Conservancy's Apalachicola Bluffs...
At Bald Point State State Park, we kayak by fishermen, oystermen, migratory ducks, and monarch butterflies- some of the best of natural north Florida. Joining us are: Doug Alderson, the Assistant Chief of Florida's Office of Greenways...
To the tune of Deck the Halls, check out just a few of the many neighborhoods in Tallahassee who are lighting up their community with bright holiday lights.
In 2019, the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension organized the first ever Great Georgia Pollinator Census. Citizen scientists from across the state counted pollinators such as butterflies, bees, wasps, and flies, and other insects (everything from praying mantises to...
The ferocious Florida Gator, seen as a nuisance by many, he truly is a southern icon. And the bad behavior of a few of these Florida natives shouldn't paint the entire swamp dwelling group with a bad reputation....
I was looking out at a Category 5 hurricane, and not for the first time. But unlike during Hurricane Andrew, over thirty years ago, this time the glass didn’t break. I was visiting the University of Miami’s SUSTAIN Lab,...
