Home Waters

For the first time, three teen trekkers embarked on a Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. Exploring our vital connection to water.
The Spring to Shore Expedition covered 50 miles on a 4-day filmed trek starting on paddleboards from Rainbow Springs State Park ending with an ocean debris cleanup by boat in Homosassa Bay. Trekkers waded through the land to water connection vital to Florida’s wildlife, wildlands, and humans alike.
Along the journey, youth trekkers paddled past an important bottleneck in the corridor that connects nearly two million acres - almost all of the Big Bend and Nature Coast critical linkages. A bottleneck is a narrow segment of a wildlife corridor whose width is less than 1 mile. Areas like this one represent the best and often only remaining threads holding our treasured parks and refuges together. Protecting critical bottlenecks is a Florida Wildlife Corridor priority.
With the recent passing of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act into law, the vision of a connected, protected, and restored statewide Corridor is more possible than ever before.
Our youth trekkers are part of a hopeful new generation of advocates for wild Florida.