Nature
UNDERWATER CORAL AT NIGHT
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better Albert Einstein
"It is not enough to allow dissent. We must demand it, for there is much to dissent from....We dissent from the willful, heedless destruction of natural beauty and pleasures."
Senator Robert Francis Kennedy, at University of California, Berkeley (1967)
The great American naturalist John Bartram (Bartram Trail and Bartram High School) explored the St. Johns River, west of St. Augustine, painting and writing about the local flora and fauna. He authored interpretive nature books that have been popular in America.
St. Augustine's natural history must be protected and preserved. As recent as 2005, the City of St. Augustine voted to permit a developer to build a strip mall and condominiums on top of a 3000-4000 year old Indian village along the banks of Red House Branch. Red House Branch was a place where St. Augustine High School students enjoyed nature studies for decades.
The St. Augustine National Historical Park, National Seashore and Scenic Coastal Parkway aims to preserve tens of thousands of acres of St. Johns River Water Management District lands as well as five current state parks --- Anastasia State Park, Deep Creek State Forest, Faver-Dykes State Park, Fort Mose Historical Park, the Guana-Tolomato-Matanazas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM-NERR).
BELOW: ANASTASIA ISLAND BEACH MOUSE
