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We are working on something exciting with our frie

We are working on something exciting with our friends at @ecsciencecenter! Stay tuned!
#education #sciencebuddies #environmentaleducation #learning

So much shell!🦪🦪 Even with fewer people in t

So much shell!🦪🦪
Even with fewer people in town, our oyster shell recycling program is going strong! We collected 26 30 gallon bins from our partner restaurants this past Monday. We will add this shell to the well over 200 tons we have collected so far this year, which will be used to restore oyster habitat in Choctawhatchee Bay. We've got some cool projects coming up, so stay tuned!
Thanks to all our oyster partners.
Impact100 of Northwest Florida, Inc., JWC Foundation, Northwest Florida Water Management District, USFWS Coastal Program, Shunk Gulley Oyster Bar, @ricksontheisland, Hightide Restaurant & Oyster Bar, @ajsoystershanty, @ajsonthebayou, Brotula's Seafood House & Steamer, The Boathouse Oyster Bar, The Back Porch - Destin, FL, O'Quigley's Seafood Steamer

#oysters #communitypartners
#habitat #dineforacause

Thanks to all the folks who came out and helped cl

Thanks to all the folks who came out and helped clean up the beaches for the International Coastal Cleanup! 🙌

#Cleanup #pollutionprevention #colunteers #cleanswell

CBA Director Alison and Monitoring Program Manager

CBA Director Alison and Monitoring Program Manager Jenna recently traveled all the way to the Alabama state line to check out a homeowner property with two creeks and a spring that flows into the Pea River. We are evaluating freshwater sites like these to add to our Monitoring Program to increase our knowledge of the upper portions of our watershed. After all, water flows to the lowest point, and what's upstream affects the downstream waterbodies like Choctawhatchee Bay. The Pea River flows into the Choctawhatchee River, which is the major freshwater source for our brackish water bay. We are all connected by our waterways, so let's take care of them!
Thanks to the gracious property owner for inviting us to explore, and thanks to the @jwcfoundation for helping fund this freshwater expansion!

#connected #waterways #waterqualitymonitoring #stewardship #creek #spring

Last week, students from @ohana_institute came out

Last week, students from @ohana_institute came out to help CBA staff care for our saltmarsh plants and our native plant garden as part if their service day. A big CBA thank you to these young water stewards! 🙏🙏
Be like these kids: find out how you can help at basinalliance.org.

#notallheroeswearcapes #plantlife #plants #saltmarsh #volunteers

🌼It's a bee-utiful day! 🌼 Program Manager A

🌼It's a bee-utiful day! 🌼

Program Manager Amanda learns how to monitor local dune ecosystems for the Gulf Coast Solitary Bee and its host plant Coastalplain Honeycombhead in a neat new citizen science project with the University of Florida.

Swimmable fishable waterways supports life big and small. Join in our mission today to protect and preserve the many species that call our watershed home!

🌊It's the most wonderful time of the year...Nat

🌊It's the most wonderful time of the year...National Estuaries Week that is!🌊

We kicked it off this past weekend with the International Coastal Cleanup and the Choctawhatchee Bay Estuary Program's Family Fun-Fest.

CBA and City of Destin staff and 40+ volunteers cleaned up over 150 pounds of marine debris at Norriego Point, while fun-fest participants learned about how to care for our estuary with our oyster gardening program on Okaloosa Island.

Thank you to all who participated!

@raestuaries

#wadein #nationalestuarie

We are about to get our clean-up on! It's not too

We are about to get our clean-up on!
It's not too late to get out to Norriego Point to join the International Coastal Cleanup!
Do your part for swimmable, fishable waterways!

#cleanup #Destin

Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere! 😎 We

Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere! 😎

We are pumped for ICC- International Coastal Cleanup- tomorrow morning, Saturday from 8 am to 10 am, at the iconic Norriego Point!

It's not too late to join, bring a friend and/or family, get out in this gorgeous weather and clean up with us!

Shout out to @cityofdestinofficial for co-hosting!

Signs of Fall! As we were enjoying our lunchbreak

Signs of Fall!
As we were enjoying our lunchbreak while building living shorelines at Live Oak Point, this buckeye was enjoying these boneset flowers. Both boneset and buckeyes are native Floridians who are at home in the saltmarsh.
Our watershed is full of such wonderful habitat and wildlife! Help us take care of it by joining our community of water stewards. Find out more at basinalliance.org.

#boneset #wildflowers #Choctawhatcheebay #butterfly #pollinators #saltmarsh

So many smooth cordgrasses! Smooth cordgrass, or S

So many smooth cordgrasses!
Smooth cordgrass, or Spartina alterniflora is an essential part of a healthy Choctawhatchee Bay. It provides habitat, erosion control, and it filters pollutants!
Although smooth cordgrass is sometimes incorrectly called "seagrass," it is not. This champion marsh plant grows along the shoreline in the intertidal zone and it is never completely submerged, so it's known as an "emergent grass" 🤓.
CBA grows smooth corgrass in our Grasses in Classes school program. In Grasses in Classes, kids take care of the smooth cordgrass, then help plant them at restoration sites.
Here, our Education Manager, Amanda, is checking on the grasses at Silver Sands School. They look pretty awesome!
Find out more about our programs to sustain swimmable, fishable waterways at basinalliance.org!
#smoothcordgrass #Choctawhatcheebay #grassesinclasses #nature #plants #plantastic

Who's ready to clean up our beaches and waterways

Who's ready to clean up our beaches and waterways together with fellow stewards around the globe this Saturday?

Here's how to join us for #internationalcoastalcleanup2022 at Norriego Point in Destin.

🐟Let us know your coming on the event registration: https://www.destinfwb.com/international-coastal-cleanup-rsvp/
🐬Download the CleanSwell App by Ocean Conservancy to help us track what marine debris we find alongside cleaner upper's around the globe.
🌊Watch this short video to learn about the app and how to use it: https://youtu.be/RnHU6TsbHQE

The cleanup runs from 8 to 10 am and free t-shirts and breakfast are first come, first serve. We can't wait to see you there!

Our Ecology Technician, Kayla shows us how to buil

Our Ecology Technician, Kayla shows us how to build oyster reef breakwaters at a recent homeowner living shoreline build.
This reef is built of limestone rock. We also use oyster shell collected from our oyster shell recycling program and other natural materials to create breakwaters like these that provide surfaces for oysters to settle and thrive, while guarding the shoreline from erosion. In addition to oysters, the breakwater provide habitat for all sorts of fish and crabs! Eventually, we will add native saltmarsh plants behind the reef to complete the living shoreline.
CBA works hard for our Bay every day!
Join us at basinalliance.org!
#oyster #livingshoreline #worklife #Destin #Choctawhatcheebay

Oyster reefs are not just for oysters! This juveni

Oyster reefs are not just for oysters!
This juvenile tripletail is enjoying the oyster reefs at one of our homeowner living shorelines. Lying on their sides on the surface near structures and tide lines, and mottled from yellow to dark gray, juvenile tripletails resemble floating leaves. When approached, they take off like a shot! Our watershed is wondrous; help us take care of it by joining our community of water stewards at basinalliance.org.

#tripletail #fish #wildlifewednesday #nature #livingshorelines #Destin

Young steward spotlight! Thanks to @abryanna_w for

Young steward spotlight!
Thanks to @abryanna_w for sharing these photos of you and your sister setting up an oyster garden for a Collegiate High School at NWFSC capstone project. Since one adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day, we at CBA are so excited that you chose oyster gardening to help our bay as part of your educational experience. You are going to make an awesome oyster parent!

#oyster #notallheroeswearcapes #garden #capstone #cbaforthebay #choctawhatcheebay

Two weeks and counting- join us for #international

Two weeks and counting- join us for #internationalcoastalcleanup2022! We will be heading the charge at Norriego Point, Destin. We can't wait clean up our waterways and shorelines alongside you!

Hard work is our middle name at CBA! Today, even t

Hard work is our middle name at CBA! Today, even though it as hot as the inside of a steamy volcano 🌋, we are taking some time to tidy up the native plant demonstration garden at our HQ, located at the South Walton Center of @nwfstatecollege. Native plants are adapted to sustain native wildlife and use much less water than non-native plants. Learn more at from the @floridanativeplantsociety at fnps.org or our website at basinalliance.org.

#nativeplants #garden #hardworking #nature #floppyhat

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The crew! We are heading out to create habitat thi

The crew! We are heading out to create habitat this morning in some rare sunshine! CBA and partners are working to protect and restore vital saltmarsh and oyster habitat to sustain a swimmable, fishable #Choctawhatcheebay.

#iheartestuaries
#oyster #saltmarsh #worklife #bargelife

#thistrend, but make it #environmental If you don'

#thistrend, but make it #environmental
If you don't work in the rain in Florida, then you don't work outside in Florida😜.
#floridalife
#summerinflorida
#rainydays
#environmentalnonprofit
#naturebasedsolutions

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