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This is so elegantly put together and scored! Bravo! as an artist from Miami who paints a Calusa mask on his face and makes songs of plant medicine and animal folklore I truly and deeply appreciate this! we must work together to save the miracle of Florida, the evil rides on the ignorance of the masses, Thank you so much for this! if your curios to check out my wife and I's art here's a most recent piece of the panther spirit! th-cam.com/video/cTi5y9IhSs8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-BskvBJ-3NsXWEk4 CC is English! Godspeed!

I want to ask have ya ever caught an alligator

Awesome piece!

Ummm...this is all such beauty...the art work the vid. The music and vibe.....dude.... Bring us more of this pure Floridian Inspiration

Democrats and they're bright ideas

That canal would have been great

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Leave it to man to mess everything up. This is so sad to see. Only Fools think there is nothing wrong with any of this. We saw them earlier in this video, the politicians, the ACOE, etc. The whole gaggle of the greedy. Sad!

Does anyone have any suggestions or maps that will show me where ancient or pre existing canals, and natural canal systems before the U.S. started re-arranging everything. I am looking to explore the canals that existed before but am having a hard time finding reliable mappings of them. And they can be dried up, that's actually preferable for me. They can also be under water. If anyone has any direction to point me or any advice, please let me know. I am figuring I may have to go into each county records and see when the first canals were being made, then try to figure out what was there and what existing systems they were using. Thank you to anyone whom helps in advance! :)

Lived there 11 yrs really enjoyed it with my first wife these were the best yrs of my life luv this little town peacefully fryers chicken the heart of melrose not to far from keystone heights very nice luv it there and the lake gorgeous lots of special memories there

Great job explaining this area. I am in Daytona. Florida is a beautiful natural playground. I love it here and hope people protect it.

I kind of think I saw that white sign on the side of the road

Ignorance on the states part for it to still be there. Isnt rodman basically drained dry now

......FREE THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER....TEAR DOWN THE DAMN DAM....

Also if you removed that damn. Tens of thousands of homes and other areas that have adapted to the new ecosystem would devistate the entire north central part of florida. I mean I think we should but is anyone thinking about the volume of water that's going to flood everything down the ocklawaha.

Well, I don't mind breaking some of these peoples pride of what they think they know. But that big machine got disassembled and torn down for a FACT! There was a hydraulic company out of Leesburg that helped with the dismantling. Ashamed some of these people are right about some of the stories but my grandfather was there first hand and watched it get torn apart out of eureka.

I,too, grew up in a Florida landscape that was distorted by the needless "work" ,by the US Corp Of Engineers. I grew up on Lake Gwynn, which is no more as it used to be. They killed the lake, and are now attempting to resuscitate it.

The website link no longer works what happened?

So much goodness 🙏🫶

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Nice and relaxing video. Beautiful also

As a boy of 6 or 7 I fished on the river with my grandfather who was born in 1900 and grew up in the scrub. We would rent a wooden flat bottom skiff and fish. We often pulled the boat over logs to get into some of the springs. I could see the fish swim over and take my bait!

It’s true. Why do they do this? You are right. It doesn’t matter. They do not care. Controlling and managing everything. They should’ve left things alone long, long, long time ago. Its an environmental massacre.😡💀

Grew up in Lakeland we had lakes and pit's but the springs are magical. Thanks

Whenever I see video titles like this I’m hoping it is about the history of the Miami River but to my disappointment it’s usually not. Did you know that the Miami River once had rapids? Why do we always have to jack up natural beauty like this? 9 times out of 10 it’s usually to serve large corporate interests. Sad.

I lived in Ocala right next to one of the trailheads to the Cross Florida Greenway, and I used to ride those mountain bike trails, sometimes daily. I considered it a good day when I had spent 3 hours riding the trails.

Just to clarify you can go through from the St. John’s into Rodman and the ockalawaha through Buckman lock. Manatees also use this lock to go to the springs

Always core of stupid engineers

I miss Whitey.

The canal also cut the Florida aquifer…..

old timers fucked the land for profit. now giant corperations are fucking the land for profit.

Barry LBJ was definitely one of the very worst president we ever had, only to be surpassed by Barack Hussein Obama and his brain dead puppet Joe. I should put a footnote that our 15th president and first homosexual president was pretty bad himself,

Free flowing straight to the ocean where it's made useless With all the ppl coming here we need fresh water things are not as simple as they seem

May all responsible parties burn in hell for eternity.

Wonderful work and revealing story of Floridas destruction, waterway by waterway.

what was the purpose of building the dam?

Please remember this, the new waterway has created a new ecosystem and by removing it this system will die. I hate to dam up rivers but i also believe in leaving them alone also after the damage has been done.

Your about 35 years you g shole

I am going to write Governor DeSantis and personally ask him to get rid of Lyndon b Johnson's destructive kilpatrick dam. People need to stand up for nature because if we don't take care of mother nature she will not take care of us. I just want to thank you so much for making this video it gave me a lot of inspiration. You did a wonderful job may God bless you and may God bring back the ocklawaha River.

A slice through the Florida aquifer screwing everything south of it.

Man, I have a shovel. I'm going to come up there and get a head start on digging!

They killed the wrong politician in Dallas, should have been LBJ !

Earth worship?????

Born and raised in South Florida during a time when we could and did swim in the Canals. This was a time when you could see the bottom and when we would go swimming, the Schools of Fish would simply swim with you, you could almost reach out and touch the Fish. Thank you for this amazing documentary.

I really hope you can get enough people to pressure the US and FL to remove the dam. Nature will do the rest. The Everglades restoration's biggest failure is not taking back enough (any actually) of the Agricultural Area and restoring SOME amount of natural flow from Okeechobee. Oh, that's not economically feasible and Oh, Okeechobee's water is too dirty or Oh, we'll not have any flood control. Unfortunately, man just feels like he has to control EVERYTHING! They really could have done something wonderful for the Glades but NOPE! Gotta PUMP it!

Blow blow Seminole Wind. Chief Osceola still has tears.

That was a Democratic Governor bragging about that era's Infrastructure "shovel ready project." I lived near there and the channelization of the Ocklawaha River is tragic, though segments remain un-"improved". The canal extends miles inland from each coast. And we DO have inalienable rights. Only people have rights.

Jim Draper - "as soon as Europeans invaded this part of the world they dreamed of building a canal" 😂🤪🤣🤣🤣👍🏼

It would have been pretty amazing to have a waterway for boaters to transit the peninsula of Florida.

Rights absent responsibility are abuses.