The shrubs and trees are enjoying a quiet dormancy. It is easy to see why our rolling terrain is known as the Red Hills Region. Yes, here are the trees Tallahassee is famous for, united by perspective into a single forest. I like to trace the braided course of the St. Johns on detailed maps and note how it alternately bulges into lakes and contracts down to narrow twisting watercourses on its journey to the north. Regardless of our views on growth and development, it is sometimes hard to say goodbye to neighborhood woods .
Most experts readily admit that stormwater management is an imperfect science.
Ann Morrow is a biologist and a free-lance writer. Attractive turtles with a heart-shaped shell and a relatively small head, the shell is a sunburst pattern of brown, tan, greenish and black above a yellowish to whitish belly shell. Wakulla is the deepest spring in the world and the source of one of the biologically richest and most beautiful natural resources in the United States, the Wakulla River. The Republican War on the Environment seems to be sputtering a little bit. Every spring I marvel at the dogwood tree.