The Ichetucknee Alliance released a statement on February 3, 2023, about the need for better growth planning to protect the Ichetucknee River System. The Alliance’s board of directors felt such a statement was necessary after analyzing some troubling cases occurring in the Ichetucknee Basin and Ichetucknee Trace in Columbia County. Click here to read the …
The Ichetucknee Alliance Board of Directors added two new members at its January 2023 meeting. Marcia Davis is a lawyer and mediator at the Bice Cole Law Firm, PL, which has offices in Alachua, Coral Gables and Ocala. Paul Donsky is a master’s degree student who is researching springs ecology at the University of Florida. …
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The nutrients and other chemicals that can pollute the groundwater in the Ichetucknee Basin have been identified in a new article by the AquiferWatch team and a staff member of the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute. Click here to learn more about these threats to the Ichetucknee.
The Florida Springs Council got a big win in the “Nestle” case on November 30, 2022! One of the people who helped make this possible is Ichetucknee Alliance President John Jopling, who (with the Alliance) is a founding member of the Florida Springs Council (FSC). Here’s what FSC wrote about the appellate court’s decision: A …
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Florida Creatives for Clean Water, a new Facebook page dedicated to helping the Florida Right to Clean and Healthy Waters (RTCW) state constitutional amendment petition campaign reach its first goal, is the Ichetucknee Alliance’s newest project. Developed by the Alliance in partnership with the RTCW campaign that the Alliance’s board has endorsed, Florida Creatives for …
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Messages from the Springs Heartland, The Gainesville Sun’s monthly column series that ran from October 2021 through October 2022, has ended. The Ichetucknee Alliance’s communications coordinator helped to organize this series that featured columns by artists, writers, scholars, scientists and springs advocates. Unfortunately, the Sun’s publisher eliminated that newspaper’s opinion section, so there will be …
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The Lower Ichetucknee Springs Protection Zone needs letters of support so that we can demonstrate to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission that the public is in favor of making the lower river motorized vessel-free. To learn more about how to submit a letter, click here. To learn more about why the Alliance is …
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More Messages from the Springs Heartland for September 2022 appeared in the 9-25-2022 print edition of The Gainesville Sun. “Messages” is a monthly column series that the Alliance’s communications coordinator is helping to coordinate as part of our educational outreach mission. The relevant columns are also available online at the links below. “Alachua County needs …
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The Alliance is cooperating with local citizens to establish a Lower Ichetucknee Springs Protection Zone (SPZ) to provide ecosystem protection from damage caused by motorized vessels. You may read more and stay up to date with developments on our new web page here.
Centering on Stewardship and a Better BMAP for the Lower Santa Fe and Ichetucknee rivers were two “Messages from the Springs Heartland” columns that appeared in the Sept. 4, 2022, print edition of The Gainesville Sun. You may also read the columns online. The article about Centering on Stewardship, which encourages people to contemplate …
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