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Lost Springs: Florida's Abandoned Springs
A short teaser with video filmed for the award-winning documentary "Lost Springs: An Artist's Journey into Florida's Abandoned Springs," available online.
Filmed at Cannon Springs on the Ocklawaha River in north Florida with scenes of the Ocklawaha River's Drowned Forest.
Watch the 40-minute film here: ua-cam.com/video/HhG_GnawH5U/v-deo.html
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Відео

"This other side to Florida" - Paddle Florida & The Great Calusa Blueway
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From 2016, filmed for @paddlefla
Bass Fishing Florida's Ocklawaha River with "Ocklawahaman" Paul Nosca
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Fishing for bass on the historic Ocklawaha River with Paul Nosca. From 2015
Dulcimer Club of Melrose, FL - Excerpt from "The Lake Santa Fe Story," 2016
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Laurie Alsobrook speaking about the historic town of Melrose, Florida. Excerpt from the 2016 short documentary "The Lake Santa Fe Story"
The Lake Santa Fe Story
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A short documentary film on the charming lakeside community of Melrose, Florida. Premiered in April 2016. A collaborative effort with Historic Melrose Inc., Melrose Business Association, Santa Fe Lake Dwellers Association and the Alert Production Team.
Lost Springs: An Artist's Journey into Florida's Abandoned Springs
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Experiencing a landscape scarred and abandoned by government failure, an artist must come to grips with the impending loss of her subject matter: a collection of majestic freshwater springs exposed only for a short time before being smothered and forgotten beneath waters held back by an aging and purposeless dam. Audience Choice - Cinema Verde Environmental Arts & Film Festival, 2018 Official S...
Lost Springs Introduction with Matt Keene
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Lost Springs Introduction with Matt Keene
Florida's Drowned Forest: "Remember this"
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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: lostsprin...
River be dammed: Florida's forgotten river
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An examination of the Kirkpatrick (Rodman) Dam and its impacts on the Ocklawaha River in Florida. Produced for River be dammed, a multimedia project investigating the Ocklawaha River and its relationship with the Kirkpatrick Dam. Released in 2014. Update (11/2019): With fond remembrance and thanks to Robin Lewis and Whitey Markle for their championing of the restoration of the Ocklawaha River. ...
Eight Days Paddling Florida's Ocklawaha River and Silver Springs
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One week. 81 miles. Matt Keene and Ryan Cantey of Marsh 2 Mayport (www.marsh2mayport.com) paddle the length of the Ocklawaha River in support of St Johns Riverkeeper (www.stjohnsriverkeeper.org) and the restoration of the Ocklawaha. The Ocklawaha River runs along the western and northern boundaries of Ocala National Forest, and is the most important tributary to the St Johns River. It's health ...

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @jeffbelton9796
    @jeffbelton9796 29 днів тому

    How can i find the song

  • @evolutionangel1
    @evolutionangel1 29 днів тому

    Synonym for construction, destruction

  • @hawkgrunt4182
    @hawkgrunt4182 Місяць тому

    Government is the Anti-Christ!

  • @lutherhenkle1165
    @lutherhenkle1165 Місяць тому

    As 60 plus year native Florida the problem you have now is a whole new eco system. I fished the river before the damage and can tell you the fishing is much better. The state needs to manage it for the people. What has destroyed the Forrest is all these atv trails they are ugly . The money they will make for this area, only if managed right. The SWMD is what ruining this river. Leave it alone and manage it correctly

  • @thatguyinaband6341
    @thatguyinaband6341 3 місяці тому

    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! ua-cam.com/video/cTi5y9IhSs8/v-deo.htmlsi=-BskvBJ-3NsXWEk4 CC is English! Godspeed!

  • @breatheinbreatheout8372
    @breatheinbreatheout8372 3 місяці тому

    I want to ask have ya ever caught an alligator

  • @darbydelane4588
    @darbydelane4588 3 місяці тому

    Awesome piece!

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 3 місяці тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @cryptonite9994
    @cryptonite9994 4 місяці тому

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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 4 місяці тому

      Thank you for the kind words!

  • @johnathoncastro
    @johnathoncastro 4 місяці тому

    Democrats and they're bright ideas

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 4 місяці тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @allen84jr
    @allen84jr 4 місяці тому

    That canal would have been great

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 4 місяці тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @Poordirtfarmer
    @Poordirtfarmer 4 місяці тому

    👀

  • @brannonevans3685
    @brannonevans3685 5 місяців тому

    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!

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 4 місяці тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @Vshamann336
    @Vshamann336 5 місяців тому

    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! :)

  • @marcuswilson8675
    @marcuswilson8675 7 місяців тому

    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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Thank you for sharing and watching!

  • @mephista55
    @mephista55 7 місяців тому

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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching!

  • @freedomforcaster1783
    @freedomforcaster1783 7 місяців тому

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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @jeffreyrodgers5835
    @jeffreyrodgers5835 7 місяців тому

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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching, no it's at full pool right now and a drawdown isn't planned until possibly Winter of 2024

  • @EdwardKelly-vi9sg
    @EdwardKelly-vi9sg 8 місяців тому

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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @christopherharrison5025
    @christopherharrison5025 8 місяців тому

    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.

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching! An unplanned for breach of the dam while it was at full pool would endanger some homes below the dam and flood a fair number or properties but I'm not sure there are tens of thousands of homes to be found that would be impacted. They release the water every four or five years in a process called a drawdown. Plans for restoration call for a staged drawdown allowing the water to be released over the course of a month. This has been done since the 1990s and has not led to the loss of homes or properties despite the state's growth in population. They'd first slowly lower the water, and then breach the dam.

  • @christopherharrison5025
    @christopherharrison5025 8 місяців тому

    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.

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Thanks for sharing your story and history. That machine was quite the assembly and it must have been a thing to see.

  • @S.L.O.P.
    @S.L.O.P. 9 місяців тому

    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.

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Thanks for sharing and watching! It's unfortunately a common story for many who have spent more than a few years in the state

  • @Sunkissedclo
    @Sunkissedclo 10 місяців тому

    The website link no longer works what happened?

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 7 місяців тому

      Sorry for the technical difficulties, the website is back up at: lostsprings.org/ but more current information on the river can be found at: reunitetherivers.com/

  • @mechellerene
    @mechellerene 11 місяців тому

    So much goodness 🙏🫶

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching!

  • @Floridagulfcoast727
    @Floridagulfcoast727 11 місяців тому

    👏💛

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching!

  • @freddking4389
    @freddking4389 11 місяців тому

    Nice and relaxing video. Beautiful also

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching!

  • @edwinbest9256
    @edwinbest9256 11 місяців тому

    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!

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thank you very much for sharing, those are quite special memories to own. Thanks for watching!

  • @lorimchair2190
    @lorimchair2190 11 місяців тому

    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.😡💀

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching!

  • @jamestregler1584
    @jamestregler1584 11 місяців тому

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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @nole8923
    @nole8923 Рік тому

    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.

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching! The early descriptions of the area of Miami, it's river, the animals (including black bears!) and people describe a unique and special place that's been lost.

  • @ipetmermaid8039
    @ipetmermaid8039 Рік тому

    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.

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @flawoodsy
    @flawoodsy Рік тому

    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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @fredpotgieter7329
    @fredpotgieter7329 Рік тому

    Always core of stupid engineers

  • @rdeanp
    @rdeanp Рік тому

    I miss Whitey.

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching, I agree

  • @jamesfranklin9855
    @jamesfranklin9855 Рік тому

    The canal also cut the Florida aquifer…..

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene 10 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @wotceseriescollector
    @wotceseriescollector Рік тому

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

  • @davidwitherington7689
    @davidwitherington7689 Рік тому

    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,

  • @lost94133
    @lost94133 Рік тому

    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

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene Рік тому

      Thanks for watching! The Rodman Dam was not constructed as a basin for drinking water but as a place for cargo ships to be staged and maneuver around each other. It doesn't have the capacity to provide drinking water, isn't a preferred source of the water management district, and would likely jeopardize the existing recreational opportunities behind the dam. All dams are not as simple as they seem.

  • @thecreeper8250
    @thecreeper8250 Рік тому

    May all responsible parties burn in hell for eternity.

  • @RussShirley1
    @RussShirley1 Рік тому

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

  • @justynjonn
    @justynjonn Рік тому

    what was the purpose of building the dam?

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene Рік тому

      Thanks for watching! The dam was built to create a pool of water that cargo ships could maneuver and be staged as they progressed through the canals and locks. Check out my other short film on UA-cam for more about the dam being built: River be dammed: Florida's forgotten river

  • @jamesg9872
    @jamesg9872 Рік тому

    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.

  • @brucecapron9344
    @brucecapron9344 Рік тому

    Your about 35 years you g shole

  • @daveooooo
    @daveooooo Рік тому

    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.

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene Рік тому

      Thank you for watching!

  • @danparker8254
    @danparker8254 Рік тому

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

  • @Papa_Naka
    @Papa_Naka Рік тому

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

  • @jimmyallen2245
    @jimmyallen2245 Рік тому

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

  • @brandonchitwood4300
    @brandonchitwood4300 Рік тому

    Earth worship?????

  • @wecan7645
    @wecan7645 Рік тому

    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.

    • @justynjonn
      @justynjonn Рік тому

      Really? where was this? I couldn't imagine jumping in there!

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene Рік тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @robertbates6057
    @robertbates6057 Рік тому

    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!

    • @mattkeene
      @mattkeene Рік тому

      The Everglades holds a special place in my heart. Thank you for watching!

  • @bookertee3057
    @bookertee3057 Рік тому

    Blow blow Seminole Wind. Chief Osceola still has tears.