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Enter the Wilderness: A Half Million Acre Opportunity
By Richard Barker | Apr. 11, 2015There’s been a lot of controversy lately over the allocation of Amendment 1 money.
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Enter the Wilderness: Devil's Millhopper
By Richard Barker | Apr. 1, 2015Hiking is fun, but the journey isn’t always the destination. If you’re looking for a picnic spot that doesn’t take a miles-long trip to reach, check out the Devil’s Millhopper.
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Enter the Wilderness: Amendment One
By Richard Barker | Mar. 29, 2015Last year Floridians passed Amendment One, an initiative to direct existing state funds to acquisition, management, and expansion of access to conservation lands.
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The Trouble With Taboo
By Richard Barker | Mar. 18, 2015This month’s issue of National Geographic focuses on the existence and pitfalls of tribalism by belief. In communities where membership is granted by birth but lines are drawn by worldview, many find themselves socially trapped in inflexible, unrealistic mindsets, unable to contemplate otherwise obvious problems for fear of alienation.
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Enter the Wilderness: Miner Bees
By Richard Barker | Feb. 24, 2015Though the Northeast is snowbound and the weather here is still bouncing from hot to cold, some wildlife is starting to get spring fever.
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Enter the Wilderness: Bolen Bluff
By Richard Barker | Feb. 17, 2015Payne's Prairie is widely known and visited by UF students, but most people overlook what I think is the best trail in the park.
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We should allow black bear hunting, but not to reduce populations
By Richard Barker | Feb. 10, 2015Edit: (This post has been modified in light of input from a bear expert.)
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Enter the Wilderness: Ichetucknee River
By Richard Barker | Feb. 1, 2015Out of all the nature hotspots around UF, the Ichetucknee River is one of the best. Forty-five minutes north of Gainesville, the Ichetucknee rises from a series of first magnitude springs, and flows south into the Santa Fe River. You can swim in the two sources springs at the North Entrance, Ichetucknee and Blue (pictured), or you can rent a tube and float down from the South. I always describe the river to friends as the lazy river, an eternally 72 degree stream of clear water filled with turtles, fish, and, at this time of year, manatees.
