Web Documentary Explores Florida's St. John's River

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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:16:32 -0400
Subject: Web Documentary Explores Florida's St. John's River
From: Kevin Sparkman <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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New Web Documentary Explores Florida's St. Johns River

An in-depth, educational web documentary about Florida's St. Johns River was
launched to help educate state residents about the 310-mile river system,
threats to its watershed and efforts to protect the historic river.

The web production, www.TheRiverReturns.org, takes site visitors on a
photo-documentary journey to learn about scientists monitoring the river's
health, river-side farmers growing crops that require less fertilizer,
citizens promoting landscaping with native plants, and even a biologist
monitoring a lone whooping crane that has taken up residence in the St.
Johns River's headwaters.  The site also includes multi-media stories
introducing people like Adam Delaney, a bass fishing guide who helps others
catch the river's legendary largemouth bass, and Wayne Hartley, a park
ranger who has been monitoring manatees at Blue Spring State Park for 25 years.

TheRiverReturns.org, is a companion to the High Definition television
documentary "Water's Journey: The River Returns," which begins airing this
month on public television stations in Florida and throughout the nation.

Other features at TheRiverReturns.org include a preview of the film, an
interactive "History of the St. Johns River" and the "Florida-Friendly
Farm," an illustrated, animation that explains the environmental benefits of
implementing agricultural Best Management Practices, methods used to
conserve water and minimize runoff of fertilizers and pesticides into the
river.

The longest river in Florida, the St. Johns begins in a flat marsh west of
Vero Beach and then meanders slowly northward on its way toward
Jacksonville. The river's watershed includes all or parts of 16 counties in
central and northeastern Florida. One of 14 American Heritage Rivers in the
U.S., the St. Johns natural beauty attracted the likes of botanist John
Bartram and naturalist and artist James Audubon and served as inspiration
for literary works of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Cross Creek and the
Yearling) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin). Today, like many
major rivers in the U.S., development pressures, polluted stormwater runoff,
discharge from industrial and power facilities and wastewater treatment
plants heavily impact the St. Johns.

TheRiverReturns.org film and web documentaries were produced with support
from the St. Johns River Water Management District, the Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Department of Environmental
Protection and the Florida Department of Education.


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Kevin T. Sparkman
Producer
Www.TheRiverReturns.org
609-714-1754


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