The first time I met Brittany Tate, Education Coordinator at the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA), she was knee-deep in the Choctawhatchee Bay, surrounded by a group of students from the Silver Sands School and AmeriCorps members. We stood at the edge of Ross Marler Park on Okaloosa Island, in the middle of a Grasses in…
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10000 Birds – Birding Before Hurricane Irma
I was lucky. Living so far west in the Panhandle, projections of Hurricane Irma’s path never crossed near Pensacola. Though we could breath a sigh of relief outside the famous “cone of uncertainty,” it has been heartbreaking to watch the devastation wrought in South Florida, the flooding up and down the eastern seaboard and Gulf…
Press – NWF State Baseball Team Helps Build Reef
The Northwest Florida State College baseball team took time off the field last Friday to help build oyster reefs in Alaqua Bayou in Walton County. “They were some of the fastest reef builders so far,” said Erika Zambello, communications coordinator for the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance. Read the article on the Northwest Florida Daily News here!
E. Zambello Writing and Art 