VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 10SERVING SOUTHWEST DECEMBER, 2000 Index UPDATE Water management had agreed to after we pay them millions for the Fisheating Creek Update 1 allow us to participate in the hearing right to watch them destroy twenty Conservation Conference 2 for the Lykes permit extension by seven square miles of the headwaters Sierra Club for Children 2 attending the meeting by remote area. Part of this area is directly General Meeting 2 conferences, but, we were notified across from one of the access points that Lykes had withdrawn the applica- Ingrams Crossings. Canoeing past TMDL What?? 2 tion. That turned out to be only a citrus groves will not provide the Outings 3 postponement to a date uncertain. same experience that paddling Star Watching 3 Possibly December or January. This through a cypress swamp gives to us Help DEP 3 is a tactic used by most when they now. This original permit was Executive Committee 4 learn of opposition to a permit obtained in 1993 at a time when we application. Please plan to call the were embroiled in the lawsuit over Job Cuts at State Park 4 District at 338-2929 in early Decem- the creek area and probably should Membership Form 5 ber to determine the day and time and not have been permitted since much Sea Turtles 5 come to be with us. Some facts you of the gully could have been found to Vote for New Officers 6 could use when you speak are: This is be submerged lands and declared to be part of the corridor. The permit Non-Fiction 6 an immense area, 27 sections, almost an entire township, in the last viable was not submitted to the West Palm Extraordinary Find 7 headwater wetland (Hale Pen Gully) Beach office as had been the case Big-Whopper Jellyfish 8 left to nurture the creek and Lake with all other Lykes permits in the Global Warming 8 Okeechobee. The creek provides the area. It slipped by unnoticed and second largest source of water for the unchallenged. Water management Executive Board Meeting lake which is in the process of dying. staff seems to believe at this time that The creek is already on the state list of Lykes has a right to have the permit (FIRST MONDAY OF EACH MONTH) impaired waters. The people of in case the state doesn't buy the DECEMBER 4, 2000 Florida, represented by our Attorney conservation easements. This is sorta' a moot point cause Lykes will 7:00 P.M. General spent over ten years in court and millions of dollars before being get the citrus in either scenario. EVERYBODY WELCOME! awarded 18,000 acres of submerged Besides this is panther habitat...We CALL ELLEN PETERSON lands for our use and enjoyment. The need some one to testify to that 992-5455 state has already designated (with the point. If you can think of any thing concurrence of Lykes) thousands of else...Please let us know. FOR DIRECTIONS acres over which we will pay millions The conservation easement states of dollars to purchase conservation that Lykes cannot use any part of the Because space in the newsletter is easements. The easements already land covered by the easement for limited, additional material is purchased were bought at about 95% drainage. The permit is essentially printed directly to the website at of the retail price (fee simple). an MSSW permit extension, and the http://www.sierraclub.org/chapters/ Unfortunately the settlement specifi- District has been explicitly informed fl/calusa/index.htm cally allows Lykes to continue any by the FWCC (as the manager of the If you do not have access to the activity already permitted so this easement) that the permit extension Internet and would like to read these permit will give them the opportunity is in clear violation of the easement. to plant citrus and other crops and to articles, please call Fay at 283-5812 John Tallent is now claiming it is all destroy wetlands and upland wildlife and a copy of the article will be just a misunderstanding. mailed to you. .habitat for provision of pasture land 1 CONSERVATION CONFERENCE, SALE AND REWARDS!!! SIERRA CLUB FOR CHILDREN A contingent of Calusa Group board members (five of us) attended the Sierra has a very worthwhile State Sierra's fall Conservation Conference. It was held at a place with program designed for underprivi- beautiful old trees, sandhill cranes and wild turkeys. We learned a lot leged and inner city children that about deep injection wells, state politics, the Arctic Refuge. we would like to implement in our Charlotte Representative Louise Raterman made a presentation regarding area. It’s known as Inner City our appeal of the judge's decision in the Heritage Trees case. The members Outings program, ICO. We must of other Sierra Groups around the state were overwhelmingly enthusiastic, have at least twelve volunteers to because in their counties they have the same issues: lack of public partici- get this program started. Calusa pation in land-use matters, trouble saving the resources because of no Chapter is looking for a few good citizen hearings. We were awarded $3,000. Locally, Lemon Bay Conser- men and women to help in our vancy contributed $1,000 toward the appeal. Thanks a lot also to these endeavors to proceed in helping the individuals for their donations: Roger Lee, Budd Pollock, Virginia and area’s children. If you’re interested Leon Karel, John J. Hickey, Ed and Dorothy Dunn, Sydney Crampton, please contact either Ellen Peterson Wilnor and Frank Weck, Marjorie and John Derrick. at 992-5455 or Julia Habel at 432- 0111. Calusa Group also had a bazaar at the convention, which was a lot of fun. Ellen brought some lovely doodads, including musical gourds, keepsake GENERAL MEETING boxes and turtles. Louise made Wild Beautyberry ginger cookies. Thanks Wednesday, Dec. 27 at FGCU. John and Karen for the table and money jar. Our sale made $111. Money goes toward appeal. We had displays to illustrate our loss of historic trees MEET YOUR EXECUTIVE and the concerns regarding possible degradation of the wondrous COMMITTEE Fisheating Creek. Thank you to all contributors. If you too wish to donate Come and find out what we are much needed funds for the court appeal - which hopefully will give about. Take this opportunity to affected citizens the right to a proper hearing and help us all to protect our tell us what you want us to natural resources - please contact Fay Phillips, Treasurer or make monies concentrate on this upcoming payable to year. refreshments will be served Sierra Club, Calusa Group 7:00 p.m. in building 3, look for 13631 Banyan Dr. our sign. Please park in lot 2. Bokeelia, FL 33922 Thank you. TMDL WHAT??? It means Total Maximum Daily Tell Governor Bush and Daryll Fax: (850)487-0801 Load. It is a program mandated by Joyner of DEP that you know that Email: [email protected]: the Clean Water Act. A program DEP is resisting cleaning up Daryll Joyner that could come close to cleaning Florida’s polluted waters by under- Department of Environmental up our nations waterways. It mining the TMDL program and Protection requires every state to identify all exclude Florida from the protec- 2600 Blairstone Rd. polluted water bodies in the state tions guaranteed by the Clean Mail Station 35 and then set and enforce pollution Water Act. Tell them that DEP Tallahassee, Fl. 32399 limits for each. It seems that our must abandon this entire draft rule (850) 488-3608 own Department of Environmental and start cleaning up our waters Email: Protection is doing a big job…one according to the process mandated [email protected].: designed to keep as many of our in the federal Act’s TMDL legisla- Dave Hill polluted rivers off the list as pos- tion. The addresses are: US EPA Region4 sible. Oddly enough the list has Governor Jeb Bush 61 Forsyth St. SW been published but now we’re re- The Capitol Atlanta, Ga. 30303-8960 making the rules that were origi- Tallahassee, Fl. 3239 (404)562-9249 nally proposed…Rivers are actually (850)488-2272 Email: [email protected] being removed. What can you do? 2 OUTINGS 1. Arrive 10 minutes before outing to get signed in. Every effort will be made to start outings on time. Please be prompt! 2. A small fee will be charged for every outing. All outings are rated EASY unless otherwise specified. 3. IMPORTANT! Call Leader first to be sure an outing/hike is still scheduled. 4. You don't have to be a member to come to an outing. Everyone is welcome! December 3rd – Goodland Canoe/ 2.5 hrs. $3.00 M, $5.00 NM. Historic Site in Estero. Contact Kayak, Challenging, must have Contact Charles Holmes 540-0599 Julia at 432-0111. experience on open water and know or Jim Hessler 267-7224 (Calusa). Also, we are including activities of how to swim. No rentals available. February 16th - Canoe / friends of the Calusa Chapter of Contact Jim Hessler 267-7224 Kayak Annual Outing - (Calusa) Sierra Club. These outings are not (Calusa). February 18th – Collier Seminole conducted by Sierra, but as a December 4th - EXCOM Meeting Hike, Moderate, nature interpretive resource for other area activities. @ Ellen's 992-5455 7:00 pm hike. Meet @ 10:00. Wear long November 26th - Alligator Creek, Everyone welcome! (Calusa) pants, long sleeves & socks/shoes you Punta Gorda, explore lower part of December 16th – Cecil B. Webb don’t mind getting wet. Approx. 3-4 creek. 9:00 am launch@ Route Wildlife Management Area, Easy, hrs. Park fee $3.00 which will be 765A bridge. Exist 28 I-75, ½ hike this spectacular wilderness collected. Bring water & lunch. mile west to 765A & turn left. area for approx 2-3 hrs with Sierra donation $3.00 M, $5.00 Frank Grieco 945-3336 (SW Fla Charles Holmes 540-0599 NM. Contact Charles Holmes 540- Paddlers) (Calusa). Entry fee $3.00, $3.00 0599 (Calusa). December 2 - 3rd - Captiva 2000, M, $5.00 NM th March 10 —Bike in the Wilderness, Kayak, surf-ski & outrigger canoe January 14th – Canoe/Kayak the TBA—Keep watching!(Calusa) race @ "Tween Waters Inn Orange River, See manatees surface st April 21 —Crew Marsh, Discover Info Brian Houston 437-0956 right beside you. Park fees of $.75 the spring flowers, bring interpreta- (SW Fla Paddlers) per hour, meet @ boat slip. Must tion books, binoculars, cameras & December 9th - Moonlight Paddle be experienced. Some rentals avail. water. Sierra donation $3.00 M, $3.00 M, $5.00 NM. Call for Outfitters 6:00 pm, $5.00 NM. Contact Charles reservations requested. details Charles Holmes 540-0599 Holmes 540-0599 (Calusa). (Calusa). (SW Fla Paddlers) On the weekend of March 3rd and December 9th - Port Charlotte January 20th - Myakka Backpack- 4th, the Calusa Chapter will be Paddlers, contact John 697-9884 ing - Overnight backpack at this hosting Outings Leader Training or Ed 697-9203 (SW Fla Pad- scenic state park. Contact Julia with first aid certification and dlers) [email protected] possibly CPR training. There will be 432-0111, $5.00 M, $8.00 NM a nominal fee for the first aid train- December 10th - Alligator Creek, (Calusa) ing, dependent upon the participa- Punta Gorda, explore upper part February 10th – Canoe/Kayak Peace tion numbers. If you are interested of creek. 9:00 am launch @ Route River, This is a very spiritual in joining our outings group as a 765A Bridge - see above. Frank experience, thus know as Peace leader please call for reservations. It Grieco 945-3336 (SW Fla River. No rentals available. Approx will be held locally at Koreshan State Paddlers) STAR WATCHING BULLETIN HELP DEP A group of about 10 novice star gazers lounged around the Fisheating Creek DEP Hotline for any violations parking lot watching for meteors, looking through the 12" SCP telescope you may see LIKE WETLAND brought by Frank Marz, enjoying the dark night and listening to stories DESTRUCTION, POLLUTION about the constellations. Most of us slept for short periods on the pool OR ILLEGAL DUMPING. loungers furnished by organizer Mary Rowland . This will be an ongoing Let's help their enforcement activity with the dates as follows:Fri. Dec.22, Sat. Jan 20, Sat Feb.24 We'll division do their job! Call try to get this new Outing activity on future outings schedules. Call Mary 1(877)272-8335. at 267 5664 for information. 3 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE STATE PLAN WOULD CUT 40 JOBS AT SIX PARKS

SIERRA CLUB, CALUSA GROUP Natural resources as well as the jobs of hundreds of state employees could http://www.sierraclub.org/ be the losers under an emerging plan to downsize staffs at state parks, chapters/fl/calusa/index.htm environmentalists charge. POST OFFICE BOX 345 "I think the cuts need a more thoughtful process and they need to do a good job of evaluating the economic impacts," said Laurie McDonald, a Estero, FL 33948 St. Petersburg biologist and environmental activist associated with Sierra Ellen Peterson Club and Defenders of Wildlife. Chair 992-5455 The plan calls for cutting 40 positions at six state park facilities where [email protected] attendance and revenue doesn't seem to justify the staffing, said Steve Cheryl White Dana, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Environmental Protec- Secretary 540-0905 tion. [email protected] Florida's park system contains 153 parks, recreation areas, gardens, trails Fay Phillips and historic, cultural or geological sites covering 555,814 acres and Treasurer 283-5812 employing 1,047 people. The cuts are planned for four facilities in North [email protected] Florida, one near Daytona Beach and one in South Florida. But if state Gary Beardsley officials decided to expand the concept statewide, it would mean that Conservation 455-6232 more than 250 park rangers and biologists would be out of jobs over the Bobbie Lee Hasty next five years and their work would either be taken over by private Vice-Chair, ABM 992-9061 contractors or ignored. McDonald said the concern is that the experiment [email protected] is skewed by the fact that only one of the six sites is the type of natural area that makes up the bulk of Florida's state parks. The rest consist of Karen Cartwright Publicity 693-3854 three gardens, a cultural site and a beach. "It's not a representative [email protected] sample, and as a scientist, it's not the kind of sample I'd use," she said. Julia Habel The downsizing experiment is in response to Gov. Jeb Bush's request in Outings 432-0111 July that all state agencies analyze how they could cut their staffs by 25 [email protected] percent over the next five years. That proposal would cut park staff to essential "core" responsibilities and use private contractors to handle many John Swingle of the duties now being done by the staff, Dana said. He said every Legislative 693-3854 attempt will be made to place workers at other state parks where vacancies [email protected] exist. But McDonald said the work that will be privitized will include Shirley Sheehan such things as fire management, which involves burning wild areas Membership 947-1823 periodically to maintain habitat quality. She's concerned that the state Cullum Hasty may have trouble finding enough qualified contractors to do this and Land Management 992-9061 other jobs, that it may be more expensive than using existing staff and the [email protected] contractors may not have the staff's respect, knowledge and concern for Louise Raterman the park land and may not do as good a job. State Park's Charlotte Co. Rep. 629-8833 Roy Osborne agrees. "From a manager point of view, I'm looking at [email protected] customer service," he said. "That's going to end under this plan." Charles Holmes Dana said DEP officials are doing a cost-benefit analysis in cooperation Outings Leader 540-0599 with Bush's office. "We're still crunching the numbers," he said. Dana said outsourcing is nothing new at DEP, explaining the department has contracted for maintenance work such as cleaning restrooms and mowing. Osborne questioned how cost-effective some of the outsourcing would be. Osborne said, at one park where he worked, the money they spent on a Calusa Digest is a publication of the Calusa mowing service could have paid the salaries of two rangers, who could Group of the Sierra Club, and is published ten have taken care of the mowing as well as other jobs around the park. times yearly. Subscription is included with "When the rangers are mowing people can stop them and ask them to Sierra Club dues or can be obtained by non- identify a bird, but contract mowers can't do that," he said. In addition, members from the Calusa Group for $5/year. 4 he said, some of the estimated costs of hiring private companies to do M E M B E R S H I P F O R M work the staff is doing is "outra- geous." Yes, I want to be a member of the Sierra Club DEP's Dana characterized the parks Yes, I want to give a gift certificate. chosen for the pilot project as some My Name of the least cost-efficient operations Address in the system with annual visits of less than 125,000. But McDonald City/State Zip said some of these parks' upkeep Home Phone Number E-Mail Address costs are easy targets because they I understand that a gift announcement card will be sent for my use. I’ve entered my name and contain formal gardens, which address above and the recipient’s name and address below. require more attention than native Gift Recipient’s Name habitats. And, she said, she and Address others are concerned that state officials will use any savings in City/State Zip high-maintenance parks to try to Membership Categories PAYMENT METHOD: apply the results to the rest of the (Check One) Individual Joint CHECK MASTERCARD VISA park system where the example may INTRODUCTORY $25 REGULAR $35 $43 not apply. "It may set up a fake CARDHOLDER SIGNATURE comparison," she said. SUPPORTING $60 $68 CONTRIBUTING $120 $128 CARD NUMBER What is being proposed in Florida SENIOR $19 $27 is something that has been pro- STUDENT $19 $27 EXPIRATION DATE posed from time to time in other LIFE $1000 $1250 state park systems around the Contributions, gifts, and dues to the Sierra Club are not tax-deductible; they support effective, country in response to tight eco- citizen-based advocacy and lobbying efforts. Your dues include $7.50 for a subscription to Sierra nomic times or calls for more magazine and $1.00 for your chapter newsletter. efficiency, said Glenn Alexander, Enclose payment information and mail to: executive director of the National SIERRA CLUB Association of State Park Directors P.O. BOX 52968, BOULDER, CO 80322-2968 F99QV 3303 -1 in Tuscon, Ariz. For instance, the Residents of Canada may remit in Canadian funds Texas Legislature a few years ago tried to mandate that the Texas Commission of Parks and Wildlife would be able to operate following SEA TURTLES BENEFIT work to become 65 percent self- the cuts. "Most of them have just FROM REFUGE LINKAGES enough staff for the day-to-day sufficient by raising park entrance Among the spending bills already fees and other measures. It didn't operations and maintenance," he said. signed into law was $5.2 million work well, according to that state's for acquiring land to link Pelican top park official. "We tried to make Thursday, November 9, 2000 By TOM PALMER, The Ledger LAKELAND Island NWR, the nation's first it self-sufficient, but that did not refuge, with Archie Carr NWR, the work," said Walt Dabney, Texas' YOU can write to the Governor’s nation's only refuge dedicated to state park director. He said many office and request that this cutting the protection of sea turtles say the state parks protect natural treasures of vitally needed staff in the parks is Caribbean Conservation Corp. 10/ but don't have the attendance to not acceptable and that the plan 31. The money will go toward generate that much revenue, and if does not include a representative purchasing critical ocean front fees are too high, visiting state parks sample of publicly visited parks and property protecting the most is put out of the reach of many will no doubt reduce Florida from important nesting beaches for the citizens. Dabney, who formerly the best rated state park system to a loggerhead sea turtle in the western worked at Everglades National Park, shell of the system we have worked hemisphere and for green turtles in said he was familiar with Florida's for generations to establish....BAD the continental U.S. park system and wondered how it IDEA! 5 NOT FICTION Voting for New Officers Each year, half of the Executive Board Imagine a world where kitchen of the Calusa Group is up for election utensils from frying pans to spatu- Yoes N for two year terms. This year, Karen Two Year Term las are made from "recycled" Cartwright, Ellen Peterson, and John radioactive (waste) materials... Gary Beardsley Swingle are beginning the second year Where the building you work in (or of their term. Julie Habel, Louise Bobbie Lee Hasty your house) is reinforced with steel Raterman, and Cheryl White were beams manufactured from a dis- Cullum Hasty appointed by the executive board to fill mantled uranium plant or your positions left vacant, thus, are up for Fay Phillips bedsprings was once parrot of a election to one-year terms. valve in an atomic reactor. Write-ins are welcome as there are Shirley Sheehan usually more offices than officers. Why would our government be One Year Term supporting this promoting of The specific offices that the elected officers will hold will be determined by "getting rid of hazardous waste"? Julie Habel the executive committee at the meeting Why? Because it would save the on January 8, 2000. nuclear power and weapons indus- Louise Raterman Please take a moment and vote. Send tries BILLIONS of dollars. Instead completed ballots to Sierra Club, P.O. of fully cleaning up contaminated Cheryl White Box 345, Estero, FL 33948. bomb plants and atomic reactors these industries would declare these Write-in candidate: sites "clean enough" and actually make money by spreading this toxic This could be you. Think about it. waste into every household in the vote, clip, fold, tape, stamp and mail country. Is this the ultimate "share the wealth" plan? This was tried by the P.O. Box 345 NRC back in 1986 but failed Estero, FL, 33948 because efforts of groups like the Nuclear Information and Resource Service Southeast Office PO Box 5647 Augusta, Ga. 30916-5647 706 722 8968 email [email protected] Here are 5 reasons they give us as to Sierra Club why "Radioactive Recycling is c/o Ellen Peterson Unacceptable" P.O. Box 345 1. It poses unnecessary, involun- Estero, FL, 33948 tarily, uninformed exposure and risks. 2. It is irretrievable and irreversible. Once the radioactive materials leave the site there is no further tracking or verification of contamination levels. 3. It is unenforceable. Unverified computer models will try to estimate acceptable doses we receive. (How about ..NO DOSE.) 6 4. It is expensive and difficult to EXTRAORDINARY FIND monitor and detect all forms of ionizing radioactivity that could be The Indian who carved the oldest dugout canoe found here was working on his released. boat before Noah built the Ark. 5. There is no economic way to In fact, the age and span of the largest aboriginal canoe find in history has confirmed that Florida's indigenous peoples - including ancestors of the modern verify compliance. We will be Seminoles - made boats to travel this lake 3,000 years before Christ walked the asked to trust the same nuclear earth. weapons and power producers that created the waste. The results from radiocarbon dating on 52 of the 87 Indian canoes found last May and June on this drought-parched lakebed near Gainesville show the oldest Don't just write to the President. canoe was made about 5,000 years ago - one of the oldest craft ever found in Ask our local commissions and Florida. The sample from the youngest canoe was about 500 years old -when town councils to pass resolutions Columbus was sailing. The rest fell within the 4,500-year span. against the use of these materials. "Extraordinary Find," is how Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris Remembering all the while that the headlined her Oct. 18 announcement. PR campaign to put radio active flouride into our water was swal- "Nature has brought our canoes back to the surface to remind us all that we lowed hook, line and sinker and the were here and have been here, in an unbroken chain, for many thousands of years," Chairman James E. Billie said. Billie visited the site in August, noting process then O.K.'d by our own the lake's original name was Pithlachocco - a Seminole word for "place of long officials thus saving the industry boats." billions of dollars. Also write to the "It was called that for thousands of years for a reason," he said. "This may Dept. of Energy have been a 'factory' where boats were made." 1000 Independence Ave. Washington, DC 20585 The canoes were studied by a process known as radiocarbon dating. Core samples were taken and hand-carried to the Beta Analytic laboratory in Miami [email protected] for study. By measuring the rate of decay of carbon, the age of any formerly And the EPA sec. living object can be fairly accurately estimated, archaeologists claim. Carol Browner In 1990, a 6,000-year-old canoe was found buried in a peat layer below DeLeon 1101,401 M St. Springs in Volusia County. And 19 Indian canoes, ranging in age from 320 to Wash. DC 20460 3,500 years old, were unearthed from a peat farm in Clay County in the 1980s. [email protected] That total was the previous largest cache of Indian canoes discovered anywhere Demand that they before Pithlachocco find. A thousand-year-old dugout canoe pulled from the 1) keep radioactive wastes and bottom of Lake Hancock is now on exhibit at the Depot Museum in Lake materials from weapons and power Wales. isolated from the public and the But nothing of the age and magnitude of these canoes has been discovered environment, and prohibit any anywhere, says Barbara Purdy, a Gainesville archaeologist who was part of the "releases" from regulatory control. group that discovered the first seven canoes in early May. Lake resident and folksinger Dale Crider, state archaeologist Melissa Memory and a student group 2) That they prohibit radioactive from Gainesville East Side High were also credited with discovering canoes. materials from entering the con- sumer marketplace or anywhere but "None has the antiquity, nor the number, that Florida has," said Purdy, com- paring this find to those of other states. "This is a treasure beyond compare." licensed radioactive facilities, The Pithlachocco canoe site ranks with the 1999 discovery of the Miami Circle 3) that they recapture that which in importance to Florida Indians, says Dr. Patricia Wickman, the Seminole has been released and Tribe Director of Anthropology and Geneaology: "This find is unique in the 4) work for an international Prohi- United States, but there is nothing surprising here. It only surprises the non- bition on radioactive "release". Indians. The area we now call Florida has been a refuge for human beings for 12,000 years. For more information on the discovery at Pithlachocco, see the "The Seminole people have traditions that tie them to Florida for many thou- sands of years. It is only up to us to confirm what the Seminole people and December CD Extra on our website their ancestors have always known: that they have tremendous equity in the or log onto the Seminole Tribe's state of Florida. Two of the strongest evidences of this truth, to date, are the official website at Miami Circle and Pithlachocco." www.seminoletribe.com. 7 NON-PROFIT ORG. US POSTAGE PAID FT. MYERS, FL 33919 PERMIT NO. 767 13713-3 McGregor Boulevard

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