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Author: Rick Bopp Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781481898492 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 44
Book Description
"Florida's Amazing Silver River" is a photographic essay of one of Florida's natural wonders... the Silver River. This visual exploration is done through the medium of black and white photographic art. The book celebrates and memorializes the Silver River, which literally gushes out of the earth from the Silver Springs underground artesian wellspring located just east of Ocala, Florida. It historically produces over half a billion gallons of crystal clear, cool water each day. The river which flows from this spring head is a lush, pristine stretch of natural beauty and wildlife that is a rare treasure. Another special treat contained in "Florida's Amazing Silver River" are five pages showing the rhesus monkeys that can be spotted along the riverbank. They have descended from a group of monkeys which were introduced as a park attraction in the 1930's. "Florida's Amazing Silver River" also includes a practical map which details the access points to the Silver River. "Florida's Amazing Silver River - One of Florida's Natural Wonders" is the first edition of the series "Florida's Natural Wonders". It is 44 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, and soft cover.
Author: Rick Bopp Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781481898492 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 44
Book Description
"Florida's Amazing Silver River" is a photographic essay of one of Florida's natural wonders... the Silver River. This visual exploration is done through the medium of black and white photographic art. The book celebrates and memorializes the Silver River, which literally gushes out of the earth from the Silver Springs underground artesian wellspring located just east of Ocala, Florida. It historically produces over half a billion gallons of crystal clear, cool water each day. The river which flows from this spring head is a lush, pristine stretch of natural beauty and wildlife that is a rare treasure. Another special treat contained in "Florida's Amazing Silver River" are five pages showing the rhesus monkeys that can be spotted along the riverbank. They have descended from a group of monkeys which were introduced as a park attraction in the 1930's. "Florida's Amazing Silver River" also includes a practical map which details the access points to the Silver River. "Florida's Amazing Silver River - One of Florida's Natural Wonders" is the first edition of the series "Florida's Natural Wonders". It is 44 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, and soft cover.
Author: Bruce Mozert Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 152
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"The key to Silver Springs's success was marketing, and park administrators knew well the power of publicity. This natural wonder was sold and marketed to tourists with tableaux of ordinary life taking place underwater. As the official photographer for nearly forty-five years, Bruce Mozert was a key player In promoting the park as a verdant wonderland where impossible things might happen underwater: a model cooks at a stove, wooden spoon at her mouth to taste, while condensed milk rises from a hidden can (to look like smoke); another bathes in a tub, scrubbing her toes; yet another relaxes on a chaise lounge while a nearby air conditioner hums away. These images are delightfully playful and clever, even touching in their depiction of the tastes and mores of an era of American optimism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Robert L Knight Publisher: Wordcrafts Press ISBN: 9781952474408 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 214
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Silver Springs, located in central Florida, is perhaps the best known natural artesian spring in the world. A grand natural wonder of the world on par with Niagara Falls or the mighty Mississippi River. Easily the largest spring in the world, Silver Springs boasts long-term average measured flows of more than 500 million gallons per day-enough to meet the water consumption needs of 5 million Floridians. Silver Springs is the most visited spring system in the U.S. drawing more than one million tourists each year, and that's before the days of Disney. Silver Springs has been called the "Fountain of Knowledge" about how all aquatic ecosystems function, based on a landmark, holistic, ecosystem study conducted more than 70 years ago. Yet Silver Springs is fading due to the careless apathy of the public and the clever manipulations of truth by unscrupulous proponents of poorly regulated growth and development. Despite that, this is an exciting time in the long history of Silver Springs. The Liquid Heart of Florida has the chance to turn the corner from more than 50 years of regulatory neglect and decline, to a future of recovery and protection. Silver Springs can serve as an allegory for all of Florida's natural wonders. Either it can go the way of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker and Carolina Parakeet, or it can be returned from near extinction like the Brown Pelican and the Bald Eagle. The future of Silver Springs is a choice that will be made by the actions or inactions of our generation.
Author: Lars Andersen Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc ISBN: 9781561642960 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 180
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This new paperback edition of Paynes Prairie still offers the sweeping history of the shallow-bowl basin in the middle of Florida, just south of Gainesville, but now adds a guide to outdoor activities that can be enjoyed in the state preserve there today, along with maps of trails for biking, hiking, and canoeing.
Author: Lu Vickers Publisher: ISBN: 9780813061528 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Paradise Park was the "colored only'" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. Together the two parks formed one of the biggest recreational facilities in the country before Disney World. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River--blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they seldom crossed the invisible line in the water"--Jacket.
Author: John M. Dunn Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 081306385X Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 294
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Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction America’s wettest state is running out of water. Florida—with its swamps, lakes, extensive coastlines, and legions of life-giving springs—faces a drinking water crisis. Drying Up is a wake-up call and a hard look at what the future holds for those who call Florida home. Journalist and educator John Dunn untangles the many causes of the state’s freshwater problems. Drainage projects, construction, and urbanization, especially in the fragile wetlands of South Florida, have changed and shrunk natural water systems. Pollution, failing infrastructure, increasing outbreaks of toxic algae blooms, and pharmaceutical contamination are worsening water quality. Climate change, sea level rise, and groundwater pumping are spoiling freshwater resources with saltwater intrusion. Because of shortages, fights have broken out over rights to the Apalachicola River, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, and other important watersheds. Many scientists think Florida has already passed the tipping point, Dunn warns. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and years of research, he affirms that soon there will not be enough water to meet demand if “business as usual” prevails. He investigates previous and current restoration efforts as well as proposed future solutions, including the “soft path for water” approach that uses green infrastructure to mimic natural hydrology. As millions of new residents are expected to arrive in Florida in the coming decades, this book is a timely introduction to a problem that will escalate dramatically—and not just in Florida. Dunn cautions that freshwater scarcity is a worldwide trend that can only be tackled effectively with cooperation and single-minded focus by all stakeholders involved—local and federal government, private enterprise, and citizens. He challenges readers to rethink their relationship with water and adopt a new philosophy that compels them to protect the planet’s most precious resource.
Author: Steven Noll Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 0813037549 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 528
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For centuries, men dreamed of cutting a canal across the Florida peninsula. Intended to reduce shipping times, it was championed in the early twentieth century as a way to make the mostly rural state a center of national commerce and trade. Rejected by the Army Corps of Engineers as "not worthy," the project received continued support from Florida legislators. Federal funding was eventually allocated and work began in the 1930s, but the canal quickly became a lightning rod for controversy. Steven Noll and David Tegeder trace the twists and turns of the project through the years, drawing on a wealth of archival and primary sources. Far from being a simplistic morality tale of good environmentalists versus evil canal developers, the story of the Cross Florida Barge Canal is a complex one of competing interests amid the changing political landscape of modern Florida. Thanks to the unprecedented success of environmental citizen activists, construction was halted in 1971, though it took another twenty years for the project to be canceled. Though the land intended for the canal was deeded to the state and converted into the Cross Florida Greenway, certain aspects of the dispute--including the fate of Rodman Reservoir--have yet to be resolved.
Author: Rick Kilby Publisher: ISBN: 9780813066530 Category : Languages : en Pages : 240
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A colorful look at a forgotten era of Florida tourism Filled with rare photographs, vintage postcards and advertisements, and fascinating writing from over 100 years ago, Florida's Healing Waters spotlights a little-known time in Florida history when tourists poured into the state in search of good health. Rick Kilby explores the Victorian belief that water caused healing and rehabilitation, tracing the history of "taking the waters" from its origins in the era of Enlightenment. Nineteenth-century Americans traveled from afar to bathe in the outdoors and soak up the warm climate of Florida. Here, with more than 1,000 freshwater springs, 1,300 miles of coastline, and 30,000 lakes, water was an abundant resource. Through the wealth of images in this book, Kilby shows how Florida's natural wonders were promoted and developed as restorative destinations for America's emerging upper class. The rapid growth in tourism infrastructure that began during the Gilded Age lasted well into the twentieth century, and Kilby explains how these now-lost resorts helped boost the economy of modern Florida. Today, these splendid health spas and elaborate bathing facilities have been lost, replaced by recreational amenities for a culture more about sun and fun than physical renewal. In this book, Kilby emphasizes the value of honoring and preserving the natural features of the state in the face of continual development. He reminds us that Florida's water is still a life-giving treasure.
Author: Rick Bopp
Author: Rick Bopp
Author: Bruce Mozert
Author: Robert L Knight
Author: Lars Andersen
Author: Carita Doggett Corse
Author: Lu Vickers
Author: John M. Dunn
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Author: Steven Noll
Author: Rick Kilby