Florida's Drowned Forest: "Remember this"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Nearly 50 years ago, a failed federal public works project left behind a drowned forest in Florida that is exposed every three or more years when a drawdown of the Kirkpatrick Dam occurs. Captain Erika Ritter leads riverboat tours along the historic Ocklawaha River and shares her personal history of the devastation and imbalance that remains to this day.
See the full film for free at: lostsprings.org/watch
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LOST SPRINGS
Audience Choice - Cinema Verde Environmental Arts & Film Festival, 2018
Official Selection - Fort Myers Film Festival, 2018
Official Selection - Orlando Film Festival, 2018
Lost Springs follows the inimitable artist Margaret Ross Tolbert as she experiences the magic and beauty of a series of freshwater Florida springs forgotten by the state and left to decay behind a nearly fifty-year-old failure of big government spending. Every three or more years, the water behind the Kirkpatrick Dam in north-central Florida is lowered, exposing an environment that is still raw with both tragedy and hope. This lowering of the water known as a 'drawdown' allows more than 20 springs to cough back to life for a short few months before the weight of the water comes back and smothers their flow again.
The film explores themes of loss, wonder and experience in nature as Tolbert joins local and regional experts on a boat trip up the long-fabled Ocklawaha River to witness this newly-revealed, transient landscape and to find the lost springs of the Ocklawaha. The film defends the uniqueness of a free-flowing river and its historical, cultural and recreational importance to the state of Florida. It celebrates the wonder of Florida springs through Tolbert's original paintings of springs seen only during this short period of time every several years and captivates the viewer with a first-ever filmed cave dive by cave-diving experts Mark Long and Tom Morris.
As more is revealed about the springs, Tolbert is forced to deal with the impacts of industry in her own work, where an emotionally-charged and haunting scene leaves audiences with a visceral connection to this place struggling to recover deep in the floodplain forests of Florida.
Why did they destroy all the trees .
Ive been looking at Florids eco history .
Very sad .
Thank you for watching! The Drowned Forest is really sad and haunting, the trees were destroyed as part of a dam-building project to create a large shallow lake where boats could turn around in. That project was cancelled and the ecosystem has never been fixed.
@@mattkeene thank you for your reply , so the drowned the trees .?
You're welcome! Thanks for the interest. The ones they didn't bulldoze over with an amphibious machine called the Crusher Crawler, they drowned. Acres of trees were left permanently flooded that slowly died over a decade. I made a 17-minute documentary with an interview from the same boat captain that has more on the "crusher-crawler" and the barge canal project: th-cam.com/video/zxCcmC4PWW8/w-d-xo.html
@@mattkeene thank you . I can't watch it write now too upsetting . I am sixty five , this has been going on all my life .
I believe the signs of the world have come to a point of no return , till the real Lord God comes back .
Thankyou .