Biodiversity and Climate Resiliency in the Apalachicola River Basin

We visit a sandhill restoration site in Torreya State Park with Brian Pelc (The Nature Conservancy in Florida) and Lilly Anderson-Messec (Florida Native Plant Society). The Nature Conservancy is helping to restore the site to a fire dependent longleaf/ wiregrass ecosystem. We early returns in a recently restored site, as a diversity of wildflowers are in bloom, some that are rare. We see more rare plants in and around a steephead ravine.

Also in that ravine, downed trees are a reminder of Hurricane Michael in 2018. The Hurricane affected the whole Apalachicola River system, from its barrier islands to Torreya State Park and everywhere in between. We talk to Apalachicola Riverkeeper about the damage done to the river, and the role of climate change in strengthening storms that continue to threaten Florida.

Learn more about climate resiliency along the Apalachicola in the WFSU Ecology Blog Post: https://blog.wfsu.org/blog-coastal-health/2020/11/building-climate-resiliency-in-the-apalachicola-watershed/

And take a deeper dive into the biodiversity of the Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Region in this post (inlcuding a breakdown of the species we see in the video): https://blog.wfsu.org/blog-coastal-health/2020/11/biodiversity-in-the-apalachicola-bluffs-and-ravines/

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