Category: Recreation
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Watering Your Garden in the Summer
Q&A with Maureen Taylor, Professional Gardener For gardening in arid zones Under the canopy of a California Friendly garden, I chatted with Maureen Taylor, a California native gardener and landscape designer, to find out the best ways to care for a California Friendly garden during a hot summer. Below are some gardening tips she shared…
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Pennsylvania DEP staffers warned superiors of dangers to private water wells from pipeline construction
A Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection official waved a red flag to higher ups in January over potential issues with Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline construction on private water wells. “Though we don’t regulate it, this private well issue has the potential to really blow up…,” wrote Domenic Rocco, waterways and wetlands program manager for…
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Toxic Lake: The Untold Story of Lake Okeechobee
CLEWISTON, Florida – For months during 2016, plumes of toxic algae turned South Florida’s emerald waters the color of coffee and smothered its inlets under a fetid blanket of guacamole-green goop that killed off fish, suffocated oyster beds and triggered a ferocious outcry from coastal residents. From NBC’s “Today Show” to The Daily Telegraph of…
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Exploring Florida — Kayaking the Waccasassa and Wekiva Rivers
Living in Florida we are pretty blessed to be surrounded by water, giving us mulitple oppourtunities to explore. Whether you like the Ocean or Gulf or rivers or lakes, Florida has it all. We just recently got a pair of kayaks and have enjoyed not only scouting for launch spots but exploring areas you wouldn’t…
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The Annual Beach Report Card 2017 Release
Much-needed winter storms may have relieved California’s historic drought, but all that rain came at some cost – poor beach water quality. Bacterial pollution at some of California’s most popular beaches spiked dramatically in 2016–17, according to Heal the Bay’s 27th annual Beach Report Card, which the nonprofit released today. Heal the Bay analysts assigned…
