We have been trying for years to get it to start up growing again. We plant it and the Manatees eat it right away. Sea grass washing up is a bad thing. We used to have oyster beds, sea grass and plants like mangroves and sea grapes to hold the barrier together. They are the lungs and filters of the rivers. Now with the Caloosahatchee and St Lucie becoming the rainy season leech lines of Florida; we are destroying the lungs and filters of the rivers and super feeding the red tides. The flow needs to go south into the drying and dying Everglades; but the natives don’t want the water from Lake Choka-chobe either. Too much Nitrogen. The water in choka-chobe can be cleaned before releasing it. It is just whether or not they have the will to do it. We used to picnic, swim and ski at Franklin Locks, now they have signs posted saying it’s unsafe. We can help. No nitrogen fertilizers. They are banned but golf courses and yards must be green. You can still get them delivered (Amazon). The runoff from cattle and fruit into the Kissimmee can be treated. The runoff from sugar can be treated. There is no sense of urgency though. Because nature will try again to come back and then people forget. They only remember when mass red tide die offs occur. (fb)

It is the end of Lee County Preservation Month. It is so sad we can't find a way to save our history. Florida is the worst at this task. Always the new prioritizes over the old. Help where you can. Help preserve what little history we have and save our great past for others to learn from. (fb)