We venture into floodplain swamps with the new Apalachicola Riverkeeper, mucking around to find the connection between tupelo trees and Apalachicola Bay. Georgia Ackerman took over as Apalachicola RIverkeeper in January of 2018. The retired Riverkeeper, Dan...
Longineu and Joanna Parsons are both faculty members at Florida A&M University. Longineu is a jazz trumpeter and Joanna is a classical pianist – and they enjoy making music together. Both began playing as young children.
Joanna started playing the piano...
WFSU Education's Haley Babcock and Muscogee Tribe of Florida's Tasked Storyteller Misty Penton discuss the work and collaboration that went into creating WFSU's first ever virtual museum, which combines materials from the PBS Kids Show Molly of Denali and...
Low rain has exposed a sinkhole or two on Lake Miccosukee, offering a glimpse into the forces that created our largest area lakes, and their connections to the Floridan Aquifer. Geologist Harley Means is our guide.
Low rain has exposed...
Our Ecology intern, Chloe Thompson, helped the Apalachee Audubon Society organize a cleanup of Lake Elberta. Thirty-seven volunteers picked up forty bags of trash on a wildlife-filled day.
It has been a hard four years for the Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery. Crippled by extreme droughts in 2011 and 2012, it was in need of extensive restoration. As drought appears to be affecting the Apalachicola River...
Charles Renaud takes us to another Fork in the Road to meet with Jessica and Jeremy Little. Their family owns the Sweet Grass Diary, a farm with a different take on raising cows and producing milk. They...
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 this “Fork in the Road,” Charles Renaud introduces us to Carson Sapp, a high school junior from Cairo, Georgia who is a world class archer. Carson's skill with a compound bow has taken him across the country...
