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Florida's Vanishing Springs

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Tags: Florida, springs, White Sulphur Springs, Silver Springs, Craig Pittman, nitrates, Governor Rick Scott, Bob Graham, Alison Morano

Good morning,

Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll talk about Florida’s vanishing springs – once a major tourist draw they are rapidly disappearing…..

And we’ll hear from a Democratic activist from Florida who has been up in Washington DC monitoring the battle over the so-called fiscal cliff…Later we’ll open the phone lines…

First four listener comments- about health care, WalMart and upcoming program changes here at WMNF….

Earlier this week a news st...

Thousands of years of indigenous history still on Florida land listen

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Tags: Maximo Park, Native Americans, archaeology, USF, Jeff Moates, springs, indian mounds

Many places across the state were home to Native Americans beginning thousands of years ago. The historical significance of some of those spots have been lost over time, but many of them have been preserved.

One of them is Maximo Park at the southern-most tip of Pinellas County. Where there is now an observation tower, beach front playground and picnic areas, there once was villages of Native Americans who were here long before Europeans settled in Florida. Jeff Moates is the Florida Pu...