Eco-Green Blog Index

The ECO-GREEN BLOG INDEX

Here is an Index of ECO/GREEN Blogs about the outdoors by topic, by author.
Click on the blue link to go to the first of each series.

Who is left to care about the death of a wilderness?  Is a Blog by the staff of the William Greenfield Center for Environmental Stewardship. Topics are mostly opinion and observations about the wilderness.

Click on the link below to go to the first page of the blog.

Who is left to care about the Death of a Wilderness

 Topics-

WLC-01  Can you find wilderness?

WLC-02 The Map Grid

WLC-03 Defining Wilderness

WLC-04 Wilderness Expectation

WLC-05  Who is left?

WLC- 06 Climate change is not an absolute conclusion ?

WLC-07 Where I go, when I go...

WLC-08 The front porch as a compromise to nature

WLC-09 The need to leave a mark in the wilderness.

WLC-10 Does a human poo in the woods?

WLC-11 Keeping track of battery charging using a reminder

WLC-12 Landslide of stewardship

WLC-13 TOUR SOUTH FLORIDA- Green in the 'glades.

WLC-14 Trails and their rating systems, & Trail Types.

WLC-15 Blame Judaism and Christianity for the destruction

WLC-16 Restoring and Hiding the scars of man upon the Earth

WLC-17 The Indian Mounds

WLC-18 What's the Difference? Part one

WLC-19 What's the Difference ? Part two

WLC-20 Book Excerpt about Big Cypress WMA

WLC-21 Yankeetown Hurrah!

WLC-22 Bald Cypress not bald pond bottoms

WLC-23 Archbold Biological Station and Private Preserve

WLC-24 Book excerpt about Devil's Millhopper

WLC-25 Should children be allowed in the Wilderness Public Lands?

WLC-26 Preservative Treated Wood is a natural choice

Songs of the Earth and Man Is a blog by Billy Holc Outdoors that mostly  takes poetry, prose, and song lyrics about the outdoors and weaves them into a tapestry about life on the green side. Click on the link below to go to this blog.

Songs of the Earth and Man

 Topics-

SEM-01 Whose Garden Was This?

SEM-02 You Say That the Battle is Over

SEM-03What One Man Can Do.

SEM-04 Rain is a Good Thing

SEM-05 Calypso, the research vessel

SEM-06 Poems, Prayers, and Promises

SEM-07 Back Home Again

SEM-08 Cool and Green and Shady/ Country Roads

SEM-09 Fly Away/ Sweet Surrender

SEM-10 Windsong

SEM-11 Garden Song

SEM-12   I am a Man of Constant Sorrow

SEM-13 The Legend of Tate's Hell

SEM-14 The legend of the Monster of the Lake- Lake Jackson

SEM-15 Moccasin Lake Nature Park

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Walk in the Woods is a blog by Will Holcomb. He investigates public lands, hiking trails, and boardwalks. Click on the link below to go to this blog.

Walk in the Woods- Will Walk for Fun

Topics-

WWFF-01 Award Winning Trails- Introduction

WWFF-02 Finding a trail

WWFF-03 Boardwalk Height

WWFF-04 TRAIL FAIL

WWFF-05 Trail Bridges

WWFF-06 Steps on Trails

WWFF-07Selecting a trail route before construction

WWFF-08 Good for one (Tree Huggers and Birders)

WWFF-09 Sub-Tropical Tree Canopy walkway open to the public

WWFF-10 Towering over the boardwalk

WWFF-11 New Parks before the Paint Dries

WWFF-12 Levels of Comfort and Safety

WWFF-13 Florida’s two great swamps...Part 1

WWFF-14Two Great Swamps, PART TWO

WWFF-15 Promoting a park to attract commerce.

WWFF-16   A State Park and a Private Preserve

WWFF-17 Name your Woods- Florida

WWFF-18 Payne’s Prairie

WWFF-19 Boardwalk and Hiking/ Nature Trail Nomination

WWFF-20 How I Rate a Park- Things to consider

WWFF-21 Boardwalks may be a cheap way to ADA compliance

WWFF-22 Trails are important as we measure who we are as Americans

WWFF-23 BUILDING A BOARDWALK- The Deck

WWFF-24 BUILDING A BOARDWALK- The Hand Rail

WWFF-25 BUILDING A BOARDWALK- Plastic Lumber

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Florida's Natural Habitats Is a free Web-Book about Florida’s Natural Habitats written in four parts, with 2 appendixes.  It was designed for hikers, wildlife watchers, and Citizen-Scientists as a field companion booklet to “Boardwalks and Long Walks” Click on the link below to go to this blob/ free booklet.

 Free Book on - Florida's Natural Habitats

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Rediscovering Florida is a blog with original drafts of some stories and articles from the book “Boardwalks and Long Walks : Rediscovering Florida, and includes some sample listings and photos from the directory listings of part two of that book. Click on the link below to go to this blog.

Excerpts from "BOARDWALKS and LONG WALKS" the book

Topics-

RDF-01  BWLW  Book Introduction

RDF-02 Explanations

RDF-03 More Explanations

RDF-04 Comparing State to National Parks

RDF-05 Levels of Comfort and Safety

RDF-06 LISTING SAMPLE- Ding Darling NWR

RDF-07 Listing Sample- Ten Thousand Islands NWR

RDF-08 Bay City Walking Dredge

RDF-09 Tamiami Trail and Alligator Alley

RDF-10 SIX MILE CYPRESS SLOUGH PRESERVE Boardwalk

RDF-11 Brooker Creek Preserve -Sample Listing
RDF-12 Hammock Park Dunedin
RDF-13 Morris Bridge Wilderness Park
RDF-14 North Anclote River Nature Park and Trail
RDF-15 DeSoto National Monument (NPS)
RDF-16 Riverview Pointe Preserve
RDF-17 Robinson Preserve
RDF-18 Lake Chautauqua Park and Nature Preserve
RDF-19 Marshall Street Park
RDF-20 Safety Harbor Micro-Parks and Promenade
RDF-21 Philippe Park and Temple Mound



Farmland
 
The "History and Future of Farmland" is a blog by the William Greenfield Center that is about Farm LAND- not just the farmers, the farms, the farm culture and lifestyle, but the LAND that is, was, and may always be- farmland.

HF-001 The History of Farmland
HF-002 Why Preserve Farmland
HF-003 Farmland Trusts
HF-004 Shrinking Role of Farming in Agriculture
HF-005 Some Farmland Shouldn't be saved..., as Farmland

The History and Future of Farmland

PUBLIC LANDS SURVEY- A survey by undergraduates and citizen-scientists of the Public Lands within Florida. For the same list with photographs, go to the Florida Public Lands Research Council's Facebook page.

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Backwoods Institute for Wilderness Safety

List of Surveyed Parks with photos