Donna Green-Townsend
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To hear all the Top Ten Songs scroll down past the Top Three Winners Singer/songwriter Daniel Childs calls the Florida Gulf Coast home, performing roughly 250 live shows per year. Originally from Tennessee, Childs says he began writing and performing music at a young age, and by 30, he had traveled the breadth of the continental … Continue reading Song Contest Winner and Finishers in the 2023 Will McLean Best New Florida Song Contest
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her novel The Yearling which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 and was made into a major motion picture. She penned many other books including Cross Creek, South Moon Under, Golden Apples, The Sojourner and Blood of My Blood. Rawlings died on December 14th, 1953 but her legacy lives on and continues to inspire writers around … Continue reading Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Video Highlights of Events at the MKR Historic State Park
With record-breaking temperatures expected in Florida, cabbage pickers between Hastings and Palatka were busy today trying to harvest the latest crop. Today’s scene was very similar to 2011 when cabbage growers also faced the risk of losing their winter crop to a hard freeze. Click on my archive story below to watch the process of … Continue reading Cabbage Growers Race To Beat the Expected Hard Freeze
(From my archives) Florida’s official state animal, the Florida panther, continues to be an endangered species with only between 50 to 150 animals left in the wild. Many of the big cats are hit by cars each year. Florida’s growing population has encroached on the panther’s historic territory. As Donna Green-Townsend reports, wildlife biologists and … Continue reading The Effort To Save The Florida Panther
In an effort to increase fish populations off the coast of Tampa/St. Pete in Florida, city leaders have supported taking old concrete construction material from builders to create artificial reefs. Donna Green-Townsend looks at the program’s success.
Lake Alice on the University of Florida campus presently serves as home to a number of species of fish and wildlife, including bats. UF has two bat houses directly across from Lake Alice on Museum Road. In a feature originally produced and aired in 1990 on public television statewide, Donna Green-Townsend shares how the … Continue reading Bat Dilemma at UF
When domestic animals such as dogs and cats get sick, there’s usually a pet owner around to foot the bill for the medical expenses and care for the pet once it goes home. But when wild species get sick or injured, who handles their medical care? Donna Green-Townsend reports on a unique cooperative effort between … Continue reading Wildlife Rehabilitation