CELEBRATING THE SPRINGS

Celebrating Florida’s Springs

Join the Florida Museum of Natural History for a screening of Lost Spring, the second installment in this year’s Florida Springs Film Series.

// BY KARIN FABRY-CUSHENBERY

The Florida Museum of Natural History Defenders of the Environment; Allen Martin on the University of Florida campus in with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Gainesville is dedicated to understanding, Commission; and Matthew Cohen, a preserving and interpreting biological professor of forest water resources and diversity and cultural heritage to ensure their watershed systems at UF’s School of Forest survival for future generations. As one of our Resources and Conservation. The evening nation’s top ve natural will be moderated history museums, the museum o ers an extensive variety of exhibits and programs to further its cause. The Florida Springs Film Series is one “THIS IS OUR FRESH WATER WE’RE TALKING ABOUT. IT’S SO VITAL TO OUR ECONOMY, AND IT’S HOME TO SO MUCH by Heather O’Bara, outreach coordinator for Alachua Conservation Trust. Throughout the discussion, viewers will be o ered such event. BIODIVERSITY. IF WE DON’T interactive surveys Created as a fourpart lm series, only PAY ATTENTION WE WILL BE IN relating to the topics at hand. one screening took BIG TROUBLE IN THE FUTURE. “By showing these place before COVID-19 altered the museum’s WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE lms, we hope to attract people who plans. Now, months TO GET INVOLVED AND DO want to know more later, they are picking up where they left THEIR PART TO PROTECT AND about our springs,” says Kristen. “We o , albeit in a virtual CONSERVE OUR SPRINGS. often take for granted manner through the what the springs do end of the year. -KRISTEN GRACE, PHOTOGRAPHER for Florida on so many

The second lm, levels. Tourism, natural Lost Spring, will be posted to the museum’s beauty, fresh water and so much more. This is webpage and YouTube channel on November 5 about preserving real Florida.” and will remain available for screening through The remaining two lms in the series November 9. have been postponed until 2021 and include

Lost Spring focuses on the Ocklawaha River topics on our springs’ biodiversity, along with and the Rodman dam, along with the ancestry a baseline observation on how things have of the people who once lived in that area. changed for the springs over the years.

“Our hope is that people will watch the lm “This is our fresh water we’re talking about,” at their leisure and then join us for an interactive says Kristen. “It’s so vital to our economy, and webinar on the evening of November 9,” says it’s home to so much biodiversity. If we don’t pay Kristen Grace, a photographer for the Florida attention we will be in big trouble in the future. Museum of Natural History. “This topic is political We encourage people to get involved and do for some, so we hope viewers will watch and then their part to protect and conserve our springs.” form their own opinions and questions.”

Participants will be invited to submit Florida Springs Film Series presents Lost questions online for panelists to discuss. The Spring // Florida Museum of Natural History discussion group will include Margaret Ross // oridamuseum.u .edu // Click on events Tolbert, the artist and co-director of Lost and then calendar to register for the November Spring; Jenny Carr, president of the Florida lm screening.

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