Alachua County/Gainesville Residents: For the fourth year in a row, Senator Keith Perry is working to remove all accountability from our municipally-owned utility and to move it one big step closer to privatization. At the Legislative Delegation meeting on Jan. 30th, there were more than half a dozen people who spoke […]
By Maryvonne Devensky 1)Report By Paul Thibault re: JOHN MUIR  – 150th Anniversary Project  1867-2017 Paul Thibault, Sierra Club member, presented his research on the hike John Muir did from Fernandina Beach to Baldwin 147 miles (in 8 days) in October 1867. Start of trail at Park in FB. […]
Who ever talked about the “slow days of summer†was not talking about my summer…Here are some things I want to share with you: On July 9, the SSJ Executive Committee heard Vice Chair of the National Speleological Society, TJ Muller, explain the position of the NSS in their fight […]
Adena/Sleepy Creek C.U.P. approved by SJRWMD Despite having appealed decision to transfer a Consumptive water Use Permit (C.U.P.) for 14.2 million gallons/day (GPD) of fresh groundwater the Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.), the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) Governing Board approved it on July 14th. 50 persons spent the […]
Sierra Club is holding a garage sale September 19th to benefit our ICO program which takes local youth on awesome outdoor adventure and service trips. Please keep us in mind when spring cleaning and save your items. Since we have minimal storage space available, we thank you for hanging on […]
Submitted via email to Drew.Bartlett@dep.state.fl.us on July 6, 2015. The Florida Springs Council (FSC) is a consortium of 28 organizations whose 100,000+ members share a deep concern with the health and restoration of Florida’s springs. Since its formation last year, FSC has provided recommendations to Florida’s legislative and executive branches […]
Subject: Opinion column on Sleepy Creek, Fla Times Union Ron Littlepage: Water officials are all wet By Ron Littlepage Thu, Jul 16, 2015 @ 1:37 pm Appointed by a governor who regularly ignores science, board members of the St. Johns River Water Management District switched teams this week and became […]
Last summer, during the challenge to the Sleepy Creek cattle ranch water permits, a public hearing was held by the judge. At that meeting hundreds of people from around the state made excellent statements regarding the impact of this cattle ranch on the aquifer for Silver Springs and the Ocklawaha […]
We have been attending the Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) meetings in Gainesville for the last couple of years. These “Action Plans†are mandated by Florida Statute in compliance with the federal 1972 Clean Water Act, and the purpose is intended to be to protect our water from pollution among […]
The Florida Wildlife Commission (FWC) met Friday, June 22 in Sarasota to drop the hammer on Florida’s Black Bears. About 80 people spoke at the meeting during a comment period that stretched over six hours. FWC commissioners voted unanimously in April to tentatively support the bear-hunting proposal, even after they […]