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Composting in Tallahassee | Building Soil in the Red Hills and Sandhills Years ago I tagged along with an archeologist to a site in the Saint Marks Refuge. After some bushwhacking through a hardwood forest, we found ourselves in a long abandoned village. There were no stone ruins, or visible structures of any sort; nothing at all to distinguish it from the surrounding forest. Only one clue told us what had been here before. Looking down, we saw a swath of dark soil peppered with conch and oyster shells. We were, in a way, looking at the compost of prehistoric Floridians.

WFSU Local Routes WFSU’s Mike Plummer shows us the fateful story of a World War II era B-17 bomber that crashed at Saint Marks on a summer day in 1944. The plane went down carrying a crew of ten men…only one airman survived. Long forgotten, the wreckage was rediscovered in 2011. A historic marker is now in place so the story of these men won’t be forgotten again. Transcript: Reporter Mike Plummer: When I think of the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, I usually think of unspoiled nature and its signature lighthouse.  But in 2011, a crew from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Shorebirds in the Misty Morning | Surveying the St. Marks Refuge It’s a little after 6:00 am, and all I can see in my headlights is tall grass. In that tall grass is the car I’m following; off to the sides is darkness, water. My car struggles to stay straight on the overgrown levies of the Saint Marks Refuge, and my hands stay busy on the wheel. Soon, Don Morrow and I are standing in the dark hearing least bitterns and frogs, and a distant barred owl. We’re in position to count shorebirds. Don does this roughly twice a month, based on the tides. “I’m looking for a 2.5 foot tide...

Hours as we approach landfall. the storm in the textbooks is a perfect looking hurricane. all four quadrants have filled out. we've got a well-defined eyes. . they're already seeing wind gusts in excess of 35 miles per hour along the coast, 33 in apalachacola. we're expecting a landfall between 1:00 and 3:00, yet to be determined, but the strength of the storm is going to be unfortunately the legacy of it. storm surge is going to be an issue. tampa bay, we're talking about 3 to 4 feet, but as we get up northward to horseshoe bay, fish creek, saint marks, we could have a storm surge up to 14 fe...

Little scenes with miniature figures lit by candles to help them create his complex sensual and dramatic work. to celebrate his five hundredth birthday there is a major show in the doge's palace in venice and another exhibition focusing on his early work in the gallery a delicate of media paintings have been loaned from all over the world. so the miracle of the slave from fifteen forty eight is one of the artist's most miraculous and radical paintings. that. saint marks suspended upside down in the air protecting a slave who is about to be martyred. always with. a renaissance master whose work...