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Shingle Creek
The headwaters of the Everglades watershed is a slow, meandering, cypress-lined creek just outside the city of Orlando.
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Kissimmee River
The restoration of 40 miles of river and floodplain is proof that these massive projects can be completed and show immediate results.
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Lake Okeechobee & EAA Reservoir
This is where the southward flow of water was interrupted. The reservoir will clean and store fresh water before it is sent south.
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Tamiami Trail Bridges
The road bed for Highway 41 effectively dammed the shallow “sheet flow” of water from the north, but two new bridges have restored the flow.
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Everglades National Park
The major outlet for fresh water from the Everglades, Shark River features the region’s tallest and most productive red-mangrove forests.
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Florida Bay
Florida Bay now receives less than 50% of the fresh water it needs to maintain its massive seagrass beds, which are the key to the entire ecosystem.
Simon Perkins
Simon Perkins is the president of Orvis and the third generation of the Perkins family to lead the company. He is a former fly-fishing and wingshooting guide, devoted father and husband, passionate angler and hunter, and like his cousin Hannah, lifelong conservationist.
Hannah Perkins
Hannah Perkins is a third-generation family owner of the company and has a lifelong passion for the outdoors and conservation.
Capt. Benny Blanco
Capt. Benny Blanco is a fishing guide, the host of Guiding Flow TV, a Captains For Clean Water ambassador, and a fierce advocate for Everglades restoration.
Capt. Daniel Andrews
Capt. Daniel Andrews is a former fishing guide who left the business to become a co-founder and executive director of Captains For Clean Water.
Mike Cheek
Mike Cheek is a staff environmental scientist/avian ecologist at the South Florida Water Management District, who has worked extensively on Kissimmee River restoration.
Lawrence Glenn
Lawrence Glenn is director of the Water Resources Division at the South Florida Water Management District. He supervises scientific monitoring to evaluate ecological conditions in the District’s lakes, rivers, estuaries, and Greater Everglades, including Florida Bay.
Dr. Stephen Davis
Dr. Stephen Davis is the chief science officer at The Everglades Foundation. For the past dozen years, his efforts have been focused on Everglades restoration, ecosystem health, and impacts of sea-level rise.
Dr. Sparkle Malone
Dr. Sparkle Malone is an assistant professor at Florida International University, whose research explores questions related to ecosystem conditions, sustainability, and vulnerability to climate extremes.
Dr. Jennifer Rehage
Dr. Jennifer Rehage is a coastal and fish ecologist and associate professor at Florida International University, who studies how alterations to freshwater flows and related effects influence fish and the recreational fisheries they support in the Everglades and south Florida.
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