The Nature of Florida with Oscar Corral
The Nature of Florida with Oscar Corral
Latest Episodes
Jim Gross explains the history of the Ocklawaha River, one of Florida's most fixable environmental tragedies
The Ocklawaha River remains one of Florida’s greatest environmental blunders, choked off by a dam built in the 1960s to build the cross-Florida barge canal. The canal never happened, but the dam remains. More than 10,000 acres of forest and at ...
Miami-Dade District 7 Commissioner Raquel Regalado talks about balancing a fast-growing city with the environment
Miami Dade District 7 Commissioner Raquel Regalado talks about balancing the wants of developers with the needs of wild areas around Miami such as Biscayne Bay and the everglades. “Are we doing everything we can do to have that balance?” she...
Florida Springs Institute Director Robert Knight talks about the problems at Florida's springs and what can be done to save them
Robert "Bob" Knight is the director of the Florida Springs Institute. He has also authored numerous books about the springs, their unique nature and how they are being degraded in Florida. In this episode, he talks about how Florida's system of...
A boat ride on Florida bay with Orvis President Simon Perkins reveals devastation from an algae bloom
I was recently invited to take a boat trip out to Florida Bay by Orvis, the apparel and outdoor gear company, Captains for Clean Water and the Everglades Foundation. We met at Angler House near mike marker 80 in Islamorada and headed out to the...
Suzanne Schreiber is focusing her organization, Dream Green Volusia, on saving what's left of her county's natural places
She launched her own non profit grassroots environmental organization in Volusia county, Dream Green Volusia when she started seeing large tracts of undeveloped lands containing forests and wildlife be razed for development across her county...
