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FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020 V5.Qxp FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020V5# 5/13/20 8:21 AM Page 1 Florida Fish & FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020 v5.qxp_FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020v5# 5/13/20 8:21 AM Page 1 Florida Fish & Volume 34, Issue 2 Wildlife News Spring 2020 Affiliated with the National Wildlife Federation President’s Message Page 4 Earth The Everyday Environmentalist Page 6 Day Southwest Florida Report Page 8 The State of the Forest Page 10 FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020 v5.qxp_FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020v5# 5/13/20 8:21 AM Page 2 Chair’s Message Florida Fish & Jay Exum Wildlife News FWF Board Greetings Florida Wildlife Federation Chair: Jay Exum Vice Chair: Dave Preston Vice Chair: Marilu Morgan Vice Chair: Joe Atterbury Members and Supporters! Northwest Region: Southern Region: Regional Director: Regional Director: To be appointed George Jones District I Director: District VII Director: Laurie Hood Linda Stanley s I write this, I am hoping that suggest that you take advantage of District II Director: District VIII Director: Pepper Uchino Ana Meira AFlorida is past the peak of the stress-reducing benefits of Northeast Region: At Large Directors Covid-19 cases. And by cases, I nature. State lands and local parks Regional Director: Joe Welbourn Jim Schuette Terry Gibson mean people - people who have lost District III Director: Bobbie Lindsay Ray Carthy Rene Brown their lives, suffered substantial District IV Director: Martha Musgrove Anna Hamilton economic impacts and, at the very Youth Conservation Central Region: Directors least, had their entire routines Regional Director: Tasman Rosenfeld Billy Causey Keara Clancy completely disrupted. It is District V Director: To be appointed District VI Director: unprecedented in all of our Jay Bushnell lifetimes, and is economically, FWF Staff emotionally and psychologically President and Graphic Designer Chief Executive Officer Danny Shapiro unsettling. Preston Robertson Information Technology Operations Manager Consultant Michelle Forman Cole Sousa Osprey nest on Lake Norris Regional Policy Director Administrative Assistant Meredith Budd Susan Williams Forest Advocate Environmental Education may be closed, but if you have Stan Rosenthal Coordinator Marney Richards access to a local greenway or trail, Membership & Database Coordinator Social Media Coordinator or if you can enter a park from an Lynn Jones Shraddha Shinde area with open access, seek respite there. As I write this, we all are also Roseate spoonbills on the Wekiva River just a few days away from Earth Day. One way I celebrate is to As impactful as it has been to make sure I spend time outdoors, us, there is a certain element of and this year is no exception. My stability that surrounds us. The plans to kayak and camp in the natural environment is mostly restored sections of the Kissimmee unaffected. In fact, the woods are River had to be cancelled, but I still quieter, roads are safer for wildlife have taken the opportunity to and beaches are less hectic for paddle local rivers and lakes, and nesting sea turtles. hike through forests and floodplains. Watching turkeys gobble and strut, experiencing the pandemonium of a wading bird rookery and hearing male alligators Tidal Discoveries Willet (Tringa semipalmata), Sandpipers (Calidris minutilla), Junonia Volute (Scaphella junonia), sharks-teeth, and other bellow in the last few weeks have specimens of shells! Peter R. Gerbert, Acrylics with Texture on been a fantastic distraction, a Gessobord Contact Information return to normalcy and a needed Tallahassee Mailing Address Naples Office PO Box 6870 4851 Tamiami Trail N . psychological boost. I encourage Tallahassee, Florida 32314 Suite 255 [email protected] Naples, Florida 34103 you to take some time to venture 239-302-1767 (office) Tallahassee Street Address [email protected] outside, celebrate Earth Day, enjoy 2545 Blairstone Pines Dr Tallahassee, Florida 32301 American alligator on the Wekiva River 850-656-7113 the spring, and stay healthy. There is comfort and solace in The Florida Fish & Wildlife News is published quarterly by the Florida Wildlife Federation the natural environment. Wild 2545 Blairstone Pines Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32301. places can be uplifting, fulfilling ISSN: 1520-8214 Editors Danny Shapiro & Preston T. Robertson and calming in their indifference to If you would prefer to receive this publication only via email some of the things that are most instead of print, contact [email protected]. Please include your name and address with your request. troubling to us, including a global Contact Us at: [email protected] pandemic. As soon as you can, I Cover photo information on page 5 No original material may be reproduced without written consent from the publisher. FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020 v5.qxp_FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020v5# 5/11/20 11:04 AM Page 3 EARTH DAY 2020 n 1970, Richard Nixon was president and the St. Lucie River IVietnam War was going full force. Protest were With so much bad news it is good to be able to being conducted to support minority rights, women’s share some good news. The ongoing restoration of rights and the anti-war movement. That year also saw Picayune Strand State Forest, depicted later in this the first Earth Day. issue, is one example. Another is the recovery of the Earth Day was the result of years of independent St. Lucie River in Southeast Florida. The St. Lucie efforts by folks concerned about our environment. flows east from massive Lake Okeechobee. It is a Rachel Carson’ book waterway that has suffered years of harmful algal Silent Spring, about how blooms as nitrogen-laden water has been pumped chemicals were from the Lake into the river at times of high water. eliminating bird The contentious pumping of polluted water has raised populations and concerns from many in this part of the state debating negatively impacting how to properly manage our water supply. humans, became a Two years ago, the St. Lucie was the site of a blue- national bestseller in green algae explosion which emitted neurotoxins that 1962. Leaded gasoline posed a threat to residents and the economy. As the fumes spewed out of algae bloom grew, it took the dissolved oxygen out of every car and truck tail- the water, thereby killing aquatic species such as fish. pipe in the United States Since that horrible time, there have been no releases and industrial smoke of polluted water from the Lake due to low water stacks belched pollution. There were many groups levels and lack of rain. No new influx of pollution has opposed to this situation, but it took two Senators, allowed the river to come back. Oysters are spawning Democrat Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin, and and conches are present. Even seagrasses are starting Republican Pete McCloskey from California, to make to be more plentiful as they can get sunlight instead of Earth Day real. These two led a bi-partisan effort being overtopped by algal mats. to clean up our air and water to the benefit of The St. Lucie show us that if we stop the harm, all, no matter party affiliation. our ecosystems can indeed return to a healthy and Due to the work of Nelson and McCloskey, and more natural state. thousands of local activists, the first Earth Day was Preston T. Robertson held on April 22, 1970. 20 million Americans (10% of President and CEO the population) took part in events to highlight the need to place restrictions on pollution. That success facilitated the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and passage of the Clean Air Act later that same year. In 1972, the Clean Water Act was passed, and in 1973, the Endangered Species Act was passed into law. These laws have saved not only wildlife but made for a much cleaner and safer environment for all Americans. It can only be hoped that our present elected officials see the wisdom to save the planet for FWF Annual Awards’ future generations. Banquet Postponed! In Florida, the Clean Air and Water Acts have helped to protect us from many of the most Please be aware that, due to the Covid-19 deleterious effects of pollution, but, of course, we still pandemic, the Florida Wildlife Federation have a ways to go. Unregulated growth and sprawling Annual Awards Banquet has been development, the elimination of sensitive habitats and postponed from June 6, 2020 to summer wide-spread pollution are still to be found in the 2021. We shall recognize the same award Sunshine State, as our population nears 22 million. In winners proposed for 2020. Updated light of these challenges, the Federation continues to act to preserve what makes Florida special. information shall be made available in early 2021. Thanks! FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE NEWS • Spring 2020 3 FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020 v5.qxp_FWF 1011 - Newsletter Spring 2020v5# 5/11/20 11:04 AM Page 4 President’s Message Preston Robertson, President and CEO Dear Fellow Conservationists: s the COVID-19 pandemic received funding. Sensitive natural A continues to take lives and As many more of areas will be preserved for us and upend our daily routines, the “ future generations through these Federation hopes you and yours are us are starting to appropriations. staying cautious, washing your grow our own One positive bill that passed, hands and practicing social food, we’re finding Senate Bill 1042, will create an distancing. Truly, we are all in this Aquatic Preserve off the coast of together. a tie to the land Citrus, Pasco and Hernando The present situation is a stark that our food Counties on the Gulf of Mexico. It reminder that no matter our comes from. has been many years since such ideological beliefs, we are all ” protection has been given to coastal susceptible to what happens in our waters, and it is highly beneficial environment. As we must adapt to that this area, which is replete with and the House of Representatives the coronavirus, we must also adapt sea grass beds, has additional included $100 million for that to, and address, the realities of protective measures.
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