Goldhead Branch State Park is located about 5 miles east of Keystone Heights, halfway between Gainesville and Jacksonville. The park features well maintained sandhills, lovely lakes, and a tropical branch ravine. The hike will be about 3.2 miles over mostly level terrain to a primitive campsite. We will set up camp and may hike . . . → Read More: Beginning Backpacking Trip to Goldhead Branch State Park
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Prairie Creek, which in wetter times, flows from Newnans Lake towards Paynes Prairie, seems to be completely dry. We will walk down the creek bed from where the Gainesville-Hawthorne bike path crosses the creek to where Camps Canal begins, then return with a small detour on the Jane Walker trail – total about 8 . . . → Read More: Up Prairie Creek Without a Paddle Whitey Markle. Conservation Chair The Suwannee/ St. Johns Sierra Club opposes any new waste-to-energy facilities in the North Central Florida region. We are a conservation group and strongly support conservation of energy and natural resources. Not fuel burning facilities. Dixie Waste Services, LLC, Dixie County, now wishes to extend an “Air Construction Permit” from . . . → Read More: SSJ Sierra Club opposes waste burners 2/11/2012 RE: C.U.P. Application #129419 (Adena Springs Ranch). Dear Mr. Tanzler: The CUP application currently being reviewed by your staff has been called to attention of the Suwannee/St. Johns Sierra Club. Concurrent with the timing to withdraw more than 13 Million Gallons of aquifer water per day/ came reports of extreme low flow conditions . . . → Read More: Letter to Hans Tanzler, Executive Director, St. Johns River Water Management District The drought situation has limited our options to find a place to paddle. Spring runs have water but usually are too crowded. Se we need a good trip that has water and not too many people. I put my canoe in at the Hwy 47 bridge on Santa Fe River. Plenty of water here because . . . → Read More: Great Santa Fe River Dinner Float on February 26th!! Adam Kent will lead a bird walk to Alachua Sink and the platform on the north side of Paynes Prairie beginning at the La Chua Trail Parking Lot. Despite the low water levels, Adam expects to see shore birds, raptors, waders, purple martins, and sparrows. While the outing will take most of the morning, . . . → Read More: Bird Walk on Paynes Prairie on February 25th Each year, the City of Gainesville Department of Parks sponsors the Great Air Potato Roundup. Volunteers gather at city parks and help weed out air potato vines and other invasive plants. On Saturday, January 28th, nearly 1,000 volunteers bagged over 4,000 pounds of air potatoes and over 2,000 pounds of other invasive plants. This . . . → Read More: SSJ helps the air potato roundup One of the top priorities for the SSJ Sierra Club in the coming year is to develop a robust outings program. On January 28th, eighteen members took the first step toward achieving this goal by attending SSJ Outings Leader training. The exceptional response highlighted the . . . → Read More: Outings Leadership Workshop On January 8, 2012, the University Park Neighborhood Association (UPNA) and the Suwannee-St. Johns group of the Sierra Club (SSJ) sponsored a forum for the candidates for the Gainesville City Commission. The forum consisted of introductions by the candidates, questions formulated by UPNA and SSJ, and questions from the audience. The District 1 candidates Armando . . . → Read More: UPNA/Sierra Club City Commission Candidate Forum The web site for the Florida chapter of the Sierra Club contains updates and press releases for a number of environmental issues. Information about clean water in Florida can be found at florida.sierraclub.org/water_quality.asp. A recent update contains the Florida Slime Tracker Map. This is a Google map with markings for rivers, . . . → Read More: Time for Slime |
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