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Habitat Loss and Degradation
Raise Your Voice: Save the Roadless Rule
Keep Florida’s Public Lands & National Forests Wild The U.S. Forest Service recently announced it is seeking to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (“Roadless Rule”). Rolling back this important rule would put almost 45 million acres of federal...
South FL Transfers $1 Billion Clean Up Liability to St. Johns River Watershed
from Lisa Rinaman, your St. Johns Riverkeeper Florida produces more than 385,000 dry tons of sewage sludge every year and a disproportionate share of this sh!# is dumped in the Upper St. Johns River Basin. In Florida, most sewage sludge is classified as either Class...
Sheltering Grasses, Supporting Manatees
Research to Foster Long-term Manatee Habitat Restoration The Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), an iconic symbol of natural Florida, can be found in the waters of the St. Johns River throughout the year. Manatees feed primarily on submerged aquatic...
May 2025 SAVe Our River’s Grasses Expedition Breakdown
From May 27–30, 2025, St. Johns RIVERKEEPER (SJRK) conducted the first field visit of Year 3 of the SAVe Our River’s Grasses Expedition, continuing efforts to investigate the alarming decline of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the St. Johns River. The team...
Endangered Species Day: Protect the Endangered Species Act
Right now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are attempting to pass legislation that would effectively gut the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect habitats of endangered species by changing the definition of the word...
Our Conservation Lands Are Not For Sale
Update 5/19/25 – We Did it! Floridians came together once again to save our conservation lands! The applicant has rescinded their proposal for the Guana River Wildlife Management Area. The developers only have to win once – we have to win every time! Thank...
Expanding Effort to Restore River Habitat
In preparation of Year Three of the SAVe Our River’s Grasses Expedition, St. Johns Riverkeeper is Forging New Partnerships From April 28 to May 2, 2025, St. Johns RIVERKEEPER (SJRK) is joining forces with Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) Florida and Mighty River...
Morning Star Fields – Permitting Evolution & Promising Future
As reported in late 2024, St. Johns Riverkeeper (SJRK) and the Clean Water Coalition of Indian River County (CWC) united to provide citizen oversight of the construction and operation of a high-density chicken facility under construction in the headwaters of the St....