The squirrel was white. I mean, bright white, scarfing down a snack as it sat on an oak tree limb in Ochlockonee River State Park’s campground. With its beady, dark eyes I knew it wasn’t an albino creature, which begged the question: what was it? Read the rest on Firsthand Florida Fun!
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Florida State Parks – Bulow Creek State Park
The tree was massive. Wider than multiple human arm-lengths, the 300-500 year old Live Oak in Bulow Creek State Park – known as the Fairchild Oak – stretched its branches high and wide at the edge of a small, grassy clearing. One particular branch, covered in fern epiphytes, had extended so far from the trunk…
Nat Geo – Military-Civilian Partnership Brings New Oyster Reef to Northwest Florida
The air reverberated with clinking noises and the whoosh of oyster shells sliding off giant piles into waiting buckets. Volunteers, Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) staff and their AmeriCorps team gathered the shells in mesh bags, slowly building another mound of new reef material. As they worked, a truck pulled in with even more shells, collected from nearby…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 