Advocates for restoring the Ocklawaha River are undeterred by a recent veto setback and are moving ahead and regrouping to ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $6.25 million that the Legislature budgeted for restoring the Ocklawaha River and dismantling the ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 30 signed the 2025-26 budget after vetoing almost $600 million in programs and projects from the ...

DeSantis slashed $500,000 to study the potential environmental and economic effects of removing the dam last year.

Gov. DeSantis has said he supports trying to 'go back to God's design.' In the Everglades. The Ocklawaha River is another ...

Florida's governor also vetoed the transfer of $200 million out of the Department of Environmental Protection.

But fisherman long defended the dam, which was renamed the Rodman-Kirkpatrick dam in 1998 after since deceased Sen. George ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed nine bills from this session with only a few measures remaining for a decision, along ...

Central Florida’s Ocklawaha River is one of the nation’s most endangered rivers, according to an environmental group’s 2020 list released Tuesday for the 10 rivers in the U.S. mos… ...

The Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir feels isolated and unworldly. The reservoir’s dark waters also are plagued by a constant growth of floating weeds, such as this clump of water lettuce.

Silver Springs and the Ocklawaha River can recover their lost beauty if we remove the dam, let the rivers flow and reduce groundwater extraction and pollution.

The initiative to free the Ocklawaha has met opposition from fans of the reservoir that essentially would be washed away if the 74-mile river were to be restored.. The reservoir has been blamed ...