   Tom Morris led 19 Sierrans for a weekend of camping and hiking in North Florida. The camping began Friday night at Tom’s private preserve, Thunderhole, where we got to socialize around the campfire.        The next morning we drove to the Alapaha to one of […]
Commissioner Robert “Hutch” Hutchinson, Jeff Montgomery, and Marilyn Tubbs led a group of hearty FROGS on a tour of Hogtown Creek Headwaters Nature Park, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, and Kanapaha Middle School to gain insight into the range of possible designs that might be considered in the restoration of Glen Springs.  […]
Fritzi Olsen organized 10 volunteers to help clean up Rosewood Creek. This stream is near Spring Hill Pond behind the Kelly Power Station in South East Gainesville.  The unusually nasty assortment of trash included not only the usual bottles, cans, tires, and plastic bags, but even a toilet.  While […]
Kate Lee is once again leading a terrific 22-mile ride on Micanopy’s really back roads. The ride is 22 miles long and presents only a couple of hills. There’s a surprise midway: a farm with zebra, oryx and who knows what else. It’s a wonderful easy and scenic ride. Helmets […]
Tom Morris will lead a hike up the Alapaha River to the Dead River. The hike will be moderately strenuous and no more than about four miles in length. We will hike through really nice hardwood forest and explore some of the most breathtaking geology in Florida. The Alapaha River […]
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 thirteen Sierrans toured the area east of Gainesville where the Plum Creek Corporation is planning one of the largest development projects in Alachua County history.  Known as Envision Alachua, the project hopes to ultimately build 10,000 homes, and attract high tech business and high […]
This field trip differs from the typical SSJ outing because its goal is to educate members of our Group about the potential impact on the environment of Plum Creek’s Envision Alachua project. Â This massive development includes most of the land east of Newnans Lake, north of Route 26 (Hawthorne Road), […]
Tom Morris led 14 Sierrans to Alexander Springs for a day of snorkeling and swimming. Along the way we stopped so Tom could tell us about the sand pine scrub plant community, an ecosystem unique to Florida, that covers much of the in the Ocala National Forest. This habitat is […]
Once again Tom Morris led a fun and educational outing.  This time we visited Salt Springs and Silver Glen Springs in the Ocala National Forest.  On the drive to the springs we stopped so Tom could give us a short lecture on the longleaf pine sandhill habitat. This plant community […]
On Thursday July 11, 2013 the Suwannee St Johns Group of the Sierra Club voted unanimously to approve the following position statement. 1. We believe that conservation land should be preserved, not sold; 2. This Loblolly parcel includes ecologically valuable land, which was set aside for conservation.  The parcel is […]
