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Save the Celery Fields
I was just eight years old the first time I visited the Celery Fields in 2016. This, I thought, is a magical place!
Feb 73 min read
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How Do We Get out of This Mess?
How did our County Commission come to abandon fair representation? Who should you vote for this year?
Aug 9, 20245 min read
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When the Last of a Species Breathes No More
When the Last of a Species Breathes No More “When the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and...
Feb 15, 202416 min read
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Wetlands Decision Will Determine Our Future
My name is Brice Claypoole. I’m fifteen years old and run the advocacy group Kids for Clean Water. The group was founded in 2020 by me...
Oct 2, 20234 min read
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Public Outcry is Our Best Weapon
I am fifteen years old and live in Manatee County. More than anything, I enjoy exploring our local environment, our land and waters. I...
Aug 4, 20234 min read
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Press
From local to national outlets–see press coverage on Brice's work.
Mar 20, 20231 min read
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The State of Pollution
An image I took one week ago in my neighborhood: hundreds of fish, dead due to red tide. Florida is famous for water. Our springwater is...
Mar 14, 20233 min read
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The Future of Florida’s Mangroves
What is the true beauty of Southwest Florida? The thing that has drawn us here? To many it is the nature, the beauty and serenity of our...
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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"Government by Extortion is Considered Criminal"
In reference to the county and state's recent attack on home rule in attempting to punish AMI for regulating development, please see this...
Jan 23, 20231 min read
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Florida: Where Home Rule Goes to Die?
Photo by Brice Claypoole On January 12, Representative Will Robinson Jr., supported unanimously by our local state legislative...
Jan 22, 20233 min read
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Suncoast Waterkeeper: More Accountability Needed to Protect Our Mangroves
Decimated mangroves at Aqua by the Bay. Photo credit: Suncoast Waterkeeper Relentless development has long plagued Southwest Florida,...
Jan 17, 20235 min read
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“Packaging Away the Planet”: Fighting a Plastic Polluter
Muntaka Chasant/Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_Pollution_in_Ghana.jpg “The entire lifecycle of...
Jan 2, 20236 min read
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Takeaways from Hurricane Ian: The Price of Climate Change is too Steep
Hurricane Ian approaches Florida. The storm would kill around 100 people in the following days. Photo Credit: National Oceanic and...
Oct 10, 20227 min read
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The Fight for Florida's Mangroves
Gnarled mangrove forests once dominated Florida’s coastlines. Hundreds of herons, egrets, pelicans, and stunning pink roseate spoonbills...
Jun 13, 20225 min read
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Swimming for Mantas!
This year I learned to SCUBA dive. I also learned from my dive instructor, Nicole Pelletier, founder of Caribbean Islands Manta...
May 15, 20221 min read
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Help Save the Mangroves
On March 16, Attorney Edward Vogler on behalf of Medallion Home, Neal Communities, and other developers wrote a public comment to Manatee...
Apr 10, 20223 min read
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The Pollinators' Plight
One of the last Franklin’s bumble bees pollinates a composite flower. Photo by James P. Strange, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research...
Jan 21, 20225 min read
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Will we still have a “Silent Spring”?
One of the last photos ever taken of the Bachman’s warbler (1958) Photo by Jerry A. Payne, USDA Agricultural Research Service:...
Nov 10, 20215 min read
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How to Support Wildlife: Plant Native!
A Selenisa caterpillar on a native partridge pea plant. Photo by Brice Claypoole On a recent trip to Terra Ceia Nature Preserve, I...
Sep 11, 20213 min read
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Save the Bees!
A beautiful blue sweat bee (Augochlorella) on a turkey tangle frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora). Photo by Brice Claypoole When someone says the...
Jul 19, 20216 min read
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