It helps to have high school friends in the conservation world! Last week Jenna Valente interviewed me for her show on the American Shoreline Podcast Network, focused on how I found myself in the environmental field and what the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance does to restore the coast in Northwest Florida. Check it out via the…
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National Parks Traveler – Battling Lionfish at Biscayne Bay
Lionfish. Impossibly beautiful, incredibly invasive. Arriving on Florida’s shores in the 20th century, the initial lionfish population invasion probably resulted from an accidental or intentional release from a hobbyist fish tank. Since then, their numbers have exploded, stretching across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Reef species, lionfish cruise these aquatic habitats for prey, both outcompeting…
10000 Birds – Looking for Waterfowl in Gulf Islands National Seashore
After being “officially” closed during the government shutdown, Florida’s Gulf Islands National Seashore didn’t look too worse for wear when my husband and I visited over the weekend. Some sand had drifted over the road, and visitors were climbing the dunes (DON’T DO THAT), but otherwise both the beach and the shoreline along the sound…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 