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RIVER LIFE: The St. Johns as an economic engine

Earlier this month, I was in Costa Rica with a small group of friends, including a retired ornithologist from Jacksonville University, where we saw almost 200 species of beautiful birds, fast-moving monkeys, slow-moving sloths and colorful frogs. Quite a trip! …

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RIVER LIFE: St. Johns River a diverse ecosystem

The St. Johns River is so big and complex that it is hard to know everything about it, especially the who, what and where of plant and animal life at any given moment in time.

But I get help. When …

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RIVER LIFE: Clean drinking water may be in short supply

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” goes the line from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The statement may soon be more true than many in our area would like to believe in the …

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JU MSRI Executive Director Quinton White’s Times-Union River Life Column: When the river ‘boils,’ it must be mullet

Mullet is the subject of the Friday, Oct. 25, monthly River Life column in The Florida Times-Union by JU Marine Science Research Institute Executive Director Quinton White.

Not the hairstyle, the fish.

White discusses watching a recent mullet run and …

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