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Posted on March 28, 2018 by Erika Zambello

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CBA thanks all of our country's veterans. We honor you today and every day.
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Get outside and see some fall color! Scarlet calamint blooms along a trail in the Point Washington State Forest. These red, tube-shaped flowers are very attractive to hummingbirds and other pollinators.
@freshfromflorida
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November at the beach! Beautiful, tea-colored water flows into the emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico this morning at the Western Lake outfall.

Western Lake is one of our rare coastal dune lakes, freshwater lakes that open periodically to exchange water with the Gulf of Mexico. These periodic exchanges result in a wide range of salinity in the lakes, which in turn leads to dynamic floral and faunal communities. Dissolved tannins from decaying leaves cause the deep, clear amber color of the lake water.
To learn more about dune lakes go to the link in the bio.

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#waltoncounty #sowal #hey30a #dontpanicitstannic #novemberinflorida

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Paddling into the weekend like...
CBA hopes you get outside this weekend and enjoy all that the Choctawhatchee watershed has to offer!

#river #gheenoe #paddle #weekend #outdoors #novemberinflorida #therealflorida
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Our young water stewards are on 🔥 this week!

Chloe Stanley, part of our @nwfstatecollege family and student at @seasideschoolofficial, chose CBA as the beneficiary of her community service project. She gathered empty tennis ball cans that would have been discarded and upcycled them into personal fishing line recyclers. These personal bins can be used by anglers to stow fishing line, keeping it out of the environment until it can be brought to one of our many monofilament recycling stations. Fishing line can persist in the environment for over 600 years, and it often entangles marine life, leading to injury or death.
CBA will use these as gifts and prizes to raise awareness at the many outreach events that we attend.
Chloe is a champion for our waterways. Be like Chloe!

#upcycle #reuse #cbaforthebay #kidsfortheenvironment #sowal #hey30a #seasideflorida
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The health of our watershed depends on the health of the diverse, connected ecosystems contained within it.
This year, in addition to working with CBA education and restoration programs, our AmeriCorps @nwf_environmental_stewards members are providing ecosystem support for our partners at Eglin AFB Natural Resources Branch (Jackson Guard). They will be assisting with habitat improvement for important Choctawhatchee watershed species like Flatwoods Salamader and Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
To prepare members for this work, Jackson Guard is providing them with essential skills like this chainsaw training

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@ohana_institute students were hard at work yesterday! Students learned about the components of living shorelines and potted smooth cordgrass and bagged oyster shell for future living shoreline projects. Living shorelines will increase important habitat and help protect our bay from erosion.
Thanks @ohana_institute!
#servicelearning #environmentaleducation #livingshorelines #cbaforthebay

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CBA is so grateful for this generous gift from @impactnwf !
We began this journey with Impact 100 Northwest Florida eight years ago, and we received so much encouragement along the way, although we never "won the prize"-- until now!
This gift will empower us to buy desperately-needed vehicles and equipment so that we can continue and expand existing programs and start new initiatives to support swimmable, fishable waterways now and into the future.
Thanks so much to the ladies of Impact 100 and thanks to all the current and future CBA staff and board members who worked on this project over the years
Everything we learned from past efforts informed this success.
#giving #nonprofit #cbaforthebay

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CBA needs your help!
Our organization thrives on the energy of volunteers like you. The most immediate need is for folks to staff the 30A 10K Thanksgiving Day Race. This locally-run, nationally recognized race will donate proceeds to CBA and other local charities.
Contact gwinr@nwfsc.edu for details and to save your spot.

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Come see us at the Freeport Bayfest at Hammock Bay! We are raising awareness and having fun--come join us! #mullettoss #cbaforthebay #outreach

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Happy Halloween from CBA!
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#whatisitwednesday
One of the first residents on our new oyster reef at Poquito Bayou. Can you guess what it is?

#juvenilefish #fish #habitat #livingshoreline #cbaforthebay

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More fall beauty! Goldenrod sways in the wind along the shore of Boggy Bayou.
If these the sights that move you, join CBA today and help us take care of habitat in our watershed.
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#habitat #goldenrod #livingshorelines #boggybayou

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CBA had a great time at the Shunk Gulley Oyster Fest---aaaand we collected twelve 30 gallon bins of oyster shell to recycle into new oyster habitat!
We would like to send a big "thank you" to @shunkgulley30a for organizing and being such an awesome community partner.

#oysters #cbaforthebay #recycling #sowal #hey30a

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Sunday Funday! Hanging out at the Shunk Gulley Oyster Fest with friends, listening to Dread Clampitt. CBA is collecting oyster shell for restoration, and raising awareness for our programs! #cbaforthebay
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As we near the end of the first month of Grasses in Classes 2019-2020, we are looking back on some of our favorite photos from the first lesson. Part of the first lesson is setting up the salt marsh nursery pictured here. The soon-to-be-brackish water reflected a surprisingly fashion-forward group of fifth-graders concentrating intently on the instructions for adding salt to the nurseries to mimic the salinity of Choctawhatchee Bay.

If you or your business want to sponsor a classroom or school for Grasses in Classes, contact Director Alison at mcdowel2@nwfsc.edu.

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October on the beach is the best time of year!
This monarch is enjoying a dune sunflower at Marler Park on Okaloosa Island. CBA and Silver Sands School grow dune sunflowers for dune restoration as part of our Dunes in Schools environmental education program. Our community partners the UF/IFAS Okaloosa County Master Gardeners helped by providing starter plants and tehnical assistance.
You can help us restore dune ecosystems and support environmental education by joining us today at the link the bio.

#environmentaleducation #monarchbutterfly #dunes #october #okaloosaisland
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#wednesdayfriendsday! Our friends and partners from @myfwc came over for the day to monitor some of our joint living shoreline projects.
@myfwc is an important funding and technical advisory partner for our living shorelines program. Along with other Northwest Florida organizations, CBA and @myfwc are founding members of PERT, or Panhandle Ecosystem Restoration Team. Go to the link in the bio to learn more about how living shorelines can lead to swimmable, fishable waterways now and into our future.

#myfwc #livingshorelines #goldenrod #oysters #monitoring #science #womeninscience #nwfdailynews

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We love our volunteers! Repost from one of our oyster gardeners and all-round bay champion @garibaldiinshorefishing. Learn how you can be a champion by giving time or money, or raising awareness at basinalliance.org.
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Got my oyster cage today. Thank you @choctawhatcheebasinalliance . If you want to know more about the oyster gardening program contact the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance. It's a great program and will learn a lot how oysters help our waters and shorelines. #choctawhatcheebay #volunteer #nicevillefl #bluewaterbay #basinalliance

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Look who stopped by to see us yesterday! Emily and Jason from @pedego30a came to our office to drop off a check for 5% of the proceeds from electric bike rentals at their family-owned business in Seagrove Beach. We are so grateful for the generosity of our locals!
So get on over to @pedego30a --now is the perfect time to ride a cool bike and do some good for the environment at the same time.
#ebike #givingback #locallyowned #familybusiness #environment #sowal #hey30a

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