December with Apalachicola Riverkeeper

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Meet Angel Ganey, Executive Director   Welcome incoming Executive Director Angel Ganey! With a career spanning more than two decades, Angel has served in roles that connect people, policy, and place. Her professional journey—including positions in state agencies, legal and corporate operations, nonprofit management, and as a Florida Licensed Realtor—has earned her a reputation for building strong partnerships and uniting communities around shared purpose.   Meet Angel Ganey

A RiverTrek 2025 Adventure by Doug Alderson   This group was amazingly cohesive in their paddling speed and support of each other. The miles flew by as we engaged in conversations and watched bald eagles and an array of other birds. We joined up with the South Carolina group, led by former executive director Andy Smith, on the last night at Hickory Landing and paddled into Apalachicola together. As we neared the landing under the Gorrie Bridge, the welcoming party was bigger than ever and we felt as though we had been on a sea voyage for six months and just returning to our home port.  RiverTrek 2025 Aerial LiDAR Mapping of Sloughs and River by Scott Walls   In November, the Slough Restoration Project team visited the current project sites. Using a handheld SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) LiDAR scanner, existing conditions were surveyed. These scanners provide extremely dense point clouds of the ground and trees, and provide much more detail than aerial LiDAR. This emerging technology could vastly improve the efficiency and quality of surveying future potential projects.    Aerial LiDAR

Flight of the Monarchs by Becca Sapienza   Two thousand miles. That’s how far many monarch butterflies will travel to reach their overwintering grounds. This alone seems like no simple feat. But imagine carrying a solar backpack and being tracked too? If you attended the recent Flight of the Monarch Event at the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (ANERR), you may have been lucky enough to watch the delicate surgery of attaching solar transmitters to the back of some healthy monarchs. I was able to attend a morning session and it was like watching a mini teaching surgery. Flight of the Monarchs Waterkeeper Alliance Member Conference by Cameron Baxley   These meetings matter because clean water work is long, hard, and often lonely. What really makes these gatherings powerful isn’t just the sessions—it’s the people who show up for each other. Coming together reminds us that we’re part of something bigger—an alliance of people across coasts, lakes, rivers, and communities who refuse to let pollution or indifference win. The challenges facing our waterways are growing. But so is the strength of the Waterkeeper movement. Every conversation, every new partnership, every shared strategy makes the entire network more effective. When Waterkeepers gather, rivers benefit—across North America and at home. Waterkeepers Gather in Pittsburgh Noah's Ark at Torreya State Park? by Doug Alderson   Some interesting historical facts were revealed at the recent Torreya State Park gathering of volunteers with Apalachicola Riverkeeper, Friends of Torreya State Park, and the Florida Trail Association.  After a fall color loop hike, the group was treated to a fascinating talk by Andrew Waber, historian with the Florida Department of State, pertaining to the park’s history. Andrew began with the early Native American occupation and steamboat era, but the bulk of his talk focused on the park’s creation by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s and early 40s. Noah's Ark at TSP?

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