The President's Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.July 2008 Indian River County Public Works Department has requested from St. John River Water Management District a variance to construct an enlarged replacement boat ramp and a new, separate fishing pier within the…
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Say NO to Liberty Park
The President's Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.May 2008 The proposed Liberty Park development at 66th Avenue and CR 510 is the second time this year when the public discovered that our county’s zoning regulations have huge loopholes. Developers “latch on”…
Life support for a languished Lagoon
The President's Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.April 2008 This morning from the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge tower, we watched some wonderful birds. In fact, all but one of the bird species depicted on the tower’s display board reminded us…
Florida Forever is out of funds
The President's Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.March 2008 Just when we are finding out that we are running out of water, and our natural and agricultural resources are being diminished daily by development, we now learn from the Nature Conservancy…
Will we preserve our quality of life? Major community environmental issues facing Indian River County folks
The President' Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.February 2008 Potable Water to Drink.Debby Ecker, who serves on our Board, will be our speaker this month, discussing where we get our water in Indian River County. It is a timely topic as…
Justifying the Sexton Land Deal
Letter: Justifying the Sexton land deal Saturday, November 24, 2007 Treasure Hammock Ranch by Bob Montanaro. Russ Lemmon’s negative column of Nov. 18 did not answer his own question: “Why did we pay $12 million for land we don’t own?”…
Hello? Why doesn’t SJRWMD listen to their own biologists?
The President's Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.November 2007 And now they don’t want the Governor or Cabinet to see their own top Biologists’ Study! Another example of Government suppressing Science? And now they don’t want the Governor or Cabinet to…
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Florida’s Shame Day: The Number 1 Con
The President's Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.October 2007 The Orlando Sentinel called it “Florida’s Shame Day 1: The big con”, when the St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board voted to swap 1,266 acres of state owned conservation lands…
Another pollutant dumped into our Lagoon!
The President's Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.September 2007 In order to cope with our county’s increase human population, Indian River County’s utilities department plans to add 6 more deep wells into the Floridian aquifer in the north county and another…
Bringing a community together to work creatively towards agreed upon goals
The President's Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.March 2007 I really liked Kenric Ward’s February 1st editorial in the Press Journal where he asked an excellent question: “Is bigger really better?” Sometimes we need to think more broadly about how we…
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