This weekend’s boat outing is cancelled due to flood-stage water levels in the Withlacoochee River, with more rain expected Friday. To be rescheduled.
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Billboard for Withlacoochee Paddle Event 2014-04-19
This billboard has already been spotted on Bemiss Road in Valdosta.
Please join us at 7:30 AM Saturday 19 April 2014 on the Withlacoochee River between Valdosta and Quitman, to put in at Old Quitman Road on the Brooks County side (just south of US 84) and paddle past where the proposed Sabal Trail methane pipeline would cross the Withlacoochee River, Continue reading
Pictures by John S. Quarterman of BIG Little River Paddle Event, 2014-03-29
Second annual BIG Little River Paddle Event
held on the sunny rescheduled Saturday morning 29 March 2014 at Reed Bingham State Park.
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Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman of BIG Little River Paddle Event, 2014-03-29
Second annual BIG Little River Paddle Event
held on the sunny rescheduled Saturday morning 29 March 2014 at Reed Bingham State Park.
Pictures by Garry Gentry Shirley Wagenhorst of BIG Little River Paddle Event, 2014-03-29
Second annual BIG Little River Paddle Event
held on the sunny rescheduled Saturday morning 29 March 2014 at Reed Bingham State Park.
Cancelled! Paddle Against the Pipeline on the Withlacoochee River: 19 April 2014
Update 9PM 16 April 2014: Cancelled due to flood-stage water levels in the Withlacoochee River, with more rain expected Friday. To be rescheduled.
7:30 AM Saturday 19 April 2014 on the Withlacoochee River
between Valdosta and Quitman,
put in at Old Quitman Road on the Brooks County side (just south of US 84):
Paddle past where the proposed Sabal Trail methane pipeline
would cross the Withlacoochee River, digging into our fragile
karst limestone, above our drinking-water Floridan Aquifer.
This is a joint event of Continue reading
This Saturday 29 March: BIG Little River Paddle Event
The BIG Little River Paddle Event will take place this Saturday rain or shine, but may be delayed if there is thunder or lightning.
You can register online or at the event.
2nd annual BIG Little River Paddle Event is postponed.
The ranger at Reed Bingham has elected to postpone the paddle event due to unsafe water levels on the Little River in the park and no significant drop in water levels today. I think this is the right thing to do. We want a safe, fun event.
The event will be moved to Saturday, March 29 at same times.
Anyone who pre-registered for the event who does not wish to come on the 29th will be given a refund.
Feel free to call me with any questions or concerns.
Bret
Billboard, BIG Little River Paddle Event
You should see these billboards around Valdosta starting today.
Thanks to Fairway for the artwork.
There’s still time to register online or by sending a check, for the Second Annual BIG Little River Paddle Event, at Reed Bingham State Park, this Saturday, 22 March 2014, to benefit Friends of Reed Bingham State Park and WWALS Watershed Coalition.
Continue readingHow Many Trees Does It Take to Protect a Stream?
Stroud Water Center wrote in their Upstream Newsletter, VOL. 2014, ISSUE 1, February 2014,
Scientists Set Buffer Width Minimum Standard.
A strip of forest along a stream channel, also called a riparian forest buffer, has been proposed and used for decades as a best management practice to protect streams by filtering out contaminants from agriculture and other land uses before they can enter them.Their benefits are many, but one benefit has dominated social and political conversations, and that is their role in preventing contaminants from entering streams.
A few years ago, Stroud Water Research Center proposed that riparian forest buffers also play another important role by Continue reading
