by Calusa Waterkeeper | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured, Press
As seen in a News-Press Op-Ed submitted by John Cassani, Calusa Waterkeeper Ineffective water quality legislation is the source of the age-old adage “the solution to pollution is dilution.” Apparently the dilution part it isn’t out of vogue with the Florida...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Feb 10, 2020 | Events, Featured
Calusa Waterkeeper Event Focuses on Fun & Water Quality Water quality takes center stage as Calusa Waterkeeper presents Calusa Palooza 2020, a day-long, family-friendly, water-themed festival culminating with a double-header rock show. The festival and “Concert...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Feb 7, 2020 | Featured, Press
Originally published in The News-Press by Chad Gillis on February 07, 2020 The federal government set aside $200 million for Everglades restoration for 2020, but some South Florida environmental groups say it’s not enough to fix the ailing World Heritage Site....
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Feb 4, 2020 | CWK Rangers, Featured
Now that we number 82 volunteer Rangers (covering 1000 square miles of water in our watershed), it is not feasible for us all to meet on a monthly basis. So, the various Ranger Zones meet monthly, and every three months we gather members of our entire Ranger program...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Feb 3, 2020 | CWK Rangers
CWK Ranger Profile – Terry Nelson Professional and Personal Background I am a History Major, frequent traveler, and attorney specializing in Civil Trial work, with an early interest in Environmental cases. I started practicing law in Miami, where I worked on the...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 31, 2020 | CWK Rangers
CWK Ranger Profile – Manny Aparicio Professional and personal background: My wife and I are native Floridians. I am from Tampa. She is from Destin. We met as students at USF, immediately fell for each other, and married in 1980. We also lived aboard a sailboat...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 28, 2020 | Press
Originally published in The News-Press by Chad Gillis on January 28, 2020 The dry season is finally starting to live up to its name. After an early end to the 2019 rainy season and a soggy December, January has turned out to be all dry, and meteorologists are calling...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 27, 2020 | CWK Rangers
CWK Ranger Profile – Maggie Stevens Professional and personal background: I was a School District of Lee County employee for over 30 years, the majority in the Early Childhood Department. In my last four years, I served as principal of Early Childhood and the...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 23, 2020 | Press
As seen in a TC Palm Op-Ed submitted by Dr. Walter Bradely and Calusa Waterkeeper Board Member, Howard Simon Floridians are well-aware of the acute environmental and health problems of harmful algal blooms and they are looking to their political representatives to...
by Calusa Waterkeeper | Jan 22, 2020 | Press
Originally published in The Associated Press by Bobby Caina Calvan on January 22, 2020 The scum of blue-green algae was so thick and invasive in Florida two years ago that it suffocated fish by the thousands. Birds dropped dead. And people stayed out of the water....
