I always love speaking with people about reefs and living shorelines! Though I usually try to do so not in front of the camera on a hot and humid Florida day. “The Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance’s latest project presented a big challenge to the nonprofit organization. The 1,400-foot breakwater reef at Eglin Air Force Base’s Post’l Point recreation…
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Hook and Trigger – Bringing Touch Tanks to Kids
Just after dawn breaks in Northwest Florida, Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) staff and AmeriCorps team members are up to their knees in the calm waters of the bay. Working in pairs, they use long seine nets to scoop up aquatic critters, carefully transferring them to a cooler for transport to elementary schools in Okaloosa and…
Hook and Trigger – Keeping an Eye on Algae
Bruce and Susan had already unloaded their aluminum jon boat into Fuller Lake when I arrived on a windy afternoon with a kayak. Located within the Coffeen Nature Preserve and bordered by tall pines and titi trees, Fuller is a coastal dune lake that in turn drains into Morris Lake before intermittently outfalling into the…
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