The winner of Within These WWALS number 4 is: Deanna Mericle.
She gets a packet of WWALS picture notecards from the WWALS online store.
The underwater plant is:
Eel grass, Zostera marina.
Nope, not wild rice, Zizania aquatica, which usually sticks up above water.
Florida State Parks does say both occur in the subject stream.
The bird is: Continue reading
Update 2020-05-18: facebook event.
Tuesday at 7PM, May 19, 2020, you can join new WWALS board member Shelby Miller for a half hour of fun online, as she conducts the first-ever WWALS Trivia Online!
Shelby will introduce each multiple-choice question about rivers, shoals, and other things in the WWALS Watersheds, which include the entire Suwannee River Basin. You get 20 seconds to answer. Fastest right answer wins that question.
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Photo: John S. Quarterman, Yay winner!
Shelby Miller drawing the winning WWALS kayak raffle ticket, at Griffis Fish Camp, Suwannee River 2019-12-07
Follow this link to Register for WWALS Trivia Online.
Yes, this is different from Continue reading
Update 2020-05-30: The winner.
Many of you saw many of these things just a few days ago, or saw pictures of them taken by those who were there.
So you can answer Within These WWALS #6, using this form:
https://forms.gle/BQgTiRRThpBgWLZN8
Please answer by midnight at the end of Saturday, May 16, 2020.
Please identify (by scientific or common name) each of the items highlighted in a set of photos and then come up with the name of the WWALS waterway where all the photos were taken. The first correct set of answers wins a packet of WWALS photo notecards from that watershed, sent via postal mail from WWALS charter board member Bret Wagenhorst.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Update 2020-05-27: The winner.
Anybody who was on #PaddleGA2019 should be able to identify at least two of these items, and the river.
Please answer by midnight at the end of Saturday, May 9, 2020,
using this google quiz form:
https://forms.gle/Nidt7HnxS91fCPWQ6
![[Butterfly, Bridge, Flower, Pointy objects]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2020-05-05--quiz5/square.jpg)
Butterfly, Bridge, Flower, Pointy objects
Please identify (by scientific or common name) each of the items highlighted in a set of photos and then come up with the name of the WWALS waterway where all the photos were taken. The first correct set of answers wins a packet of WWALS photo notecards from that watershed, sent via postal mail from WWALS charter board member Bret Wagenhorst.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Update 2020-05-26: the winner.
Please identify (by scientific or common name) each of the items highlighted in a set of photos and then come up with the name of the WWALS waterway where all the photos were taken. The first correct set of answers wins a packet of WWALS photo cards from that watershed.
Here’s the quiz form where you can enter your answers:
https://forms.gle/T65TdgVLPsu6Gxn58
Please answer by midnight at the end of Saturday, May 2, 2020.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
You don’t have to be as high-energy as Sabrina Deetz, but it helps!
Songs are coming in. Send in your song by the deadline of July 8, 2020, for the Third Annual Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest, August 22, 2020, at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Georgia:
wwals.net/pictures/2020-08-22–songwriting/
Photo: Sara and Scotti Jay for WWALS, of
Sabrina Deetz singing
Take me to the Suwannee
at the 2019 Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest.
“Georgia Beer Co. is back as our top-tier sponsor, which helps us get these new songs about our rivers, swamps, springs, and sinks,” said Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman.
Finalists will play at the Contest, 6-9 PM, Saturday, August 22, 2020, judges will judge, at the Turner Center for the Arts, 527 N Patterson St, Valdosta, Georgia, 31601. There will be food and a cash bar, as you watch and listen, and you can browse the artworks at the Turner Center. There will also be a kayak raffle and a silent auction, as well as a range of buttons, stickers, hats, notecards, signs, shirts, and posters for sale: this is a fundraiser for WWALS Watershed Coalition.
Yes, we do have a plan in case stay-at-home for the novel coronavirus pandemic is not over by August. We will Continue reading
You can send in your song by the deadline of July 8, 2020, for the Third Annual Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest, August 22, 2020, at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Georgia:
wwals.net/pictures/2020-08-22–songwriting/
Photo: Sara and Scotti Jay for WWALS, of
Norene Olsen singing
Driftin Down the Suwannee
at the 2019 Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest.
Any genre of music is fine. Any lineup of musicians is good, from full bands to single musicians, to a capella, to even spoken word if you’re really brave.
And here’s the 2020 Entry Form.
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Third Annual Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest
Yes, we do have a plan in case stay-at-home for the novel coronavirus pandemic is not over by August. We will take the contest virtual, with finalists playing from their places, judges judging from home, and you watching it all from where you are! But so far we’re planning on being all in one place.
Update 2020-04-01: Here is the entry form.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (see also PDF)
Song submissions open April First (no fooling!): Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest
Hahira, Georgia, March 30, 2020 — Bigger and with a new venue, the Turner Center for the Arts, the Third Annual Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest seeks songs. Submissions open Wednesday, April 1, 2020, yes, no fooling!
Third Annual Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest
“Georgia Beer Co. is back as our top-tier sponsor, which helps us get these new songs about our rivers, swamps, springs, and sinks,” said Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman.
Finalists will play at the Contest, 6-9 PM, Saturday, August 22, 2020, judges will judge, at the Turner Center for the Arts, 527 N Patterson St, Valdosta, Georgia, 31601. There will be food and a cash bar, as you watch and listen, and you can browse the artworks at the Turner Center. There will also be a kayak raffle and a silent auction, as well as a range of buttons, stickers, hats, notecards, signs, shirts, and posters for sale: this is a fundraiser for WWALS Watershed Coalition.
Photo: Sara and Scotti Jay for WWALS, of Kyle Chamberlain and David Rodock playing
Alapaha Laphogs
at the 2019 Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest.
“I heard so many good things about last year’s Contest when I was in Newfoundland, that this year I’m the organizing committee chair. I’m thrilled at how well it’s all coming together,” said Tom H. Johnson, Jr.
So you’ll know what you’re supporting, there will be talks about WWALS advocacy, from water quality testing to opposing pipelines and mines and plastic water bottles, to promoting water trails and a Troupville River Camp.
“It’s a fun time for a worthy cause!” said 2018 winner and 2019 headliner Laura D’Alisera, scribe for the organizing committee.
Submissions can be songs about any Continue reading
Update 2022-08-09: Plus Suwannee Riverkeeper Suwannee Bass t-shirts, with WWALS logo on the back!
Can’t get your WWALS stickers, hats, or cards at a festival booth? No problem! WWALS has a new online store where you can get all sorts of things that look good and support our stewardship and advocacy: https://wwalswatershed.square.site/
Click on the green “Shop now” button to see the items.
Click on any item to order. Then use the cart to review, and pay like in most online stores. We will ship your order to you.
For example, the WWALS notecards are perfect for sending paper messages to all those friends and relatives you can’t visit right now. Each package of note cards has eight beautiful note cards, on high quality paper, each with an envelope.
Note Cards: Swamps and Springs
In addition to the Swamps and Springs shown above, there are packages with themes of Withlacoochee and Little Rivers, Alapaha River, and Suwannee River.
Explaining the note cards, here is WWALS Executive Director Gretchen Quarterman at the virtual WWALS booth in the woods: Continue reading
Update 2020-03-30: Song submissions open April First (no fooling!): Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest
Stay tuned for a press release about the Third Annual Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest! Song submissions will open April 1, 2020 (no fooling!), for the Contest, in which Finalists will play for the Judges and You, Saturday, August 22, 2020.
From last year, here’s headliner Laura D’Alisera finishing up her set.
Photo: Sara and Scotti Jay for WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc.,
of Laura D’Alisera and Patrick playing Gone at Last, by Paul Simon,
in Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest 2019.
Laura won the first Contest in 2018, and came back to Continue reading
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