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The St. Johns River rises in a marshland wilderness, flows through woodlands, fills massive lakes and hosts the city of Jacksonville. This river of many personalities also has
many voices - the voices of people who care about the river's future.

Link to Hooked on the St. Johns
Photo of two fishermen with fish
Fishing guide Adam Delaney reveals the secrets of hooking lunker bass and why the St. Johns River needs to be maintained as a robust fishing hole.
Link to Hooked on the St. Johns
Link to Taking You To The River
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Film producers Wes Skiles and Jill Heinerth share their vision behind the making of The River Returns, an exciting educational film about the St. Johns River.
Link to Taking You To The River
Link to Landscaping That Heals
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Don Loop, Jimmy Shine, Dave Chiappini and David Rigsby describe what it takes to create "river friendly" yards. The first step: reduce residential lawns.
Link to Landscaping That Heals


Link to Monitoring the Manatees
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Wayne Hartley explains how counting manatees in Blue Spring State Park is connected to establishing development and water use policies in nearby communities.
Link to Monitoring the Manatees
Link to The River Sleuths
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Scientists David Girardin and Jim Maher relate to the river in emotional as well as numerical terms. And the numbers, they tell us, aren't looking too good.
Link to The River Sleuths

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The Water's Journey: The River Returns film
is an original film by Karst Productions, Inc.
The River Returns web documentary, Copyright © Fusionspark Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
All Photos © 2005 Russell Sparkman/Fusionspark Media, Inc., unless otherwise noted.