‘RIVERS BENEATH US’ PROGRAM SET

Dr. Chris Warner

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN Editor

Dr. Chris Werner is scheduled to speak next week about Wakulla’s unique cavern system and its interconnectedness.
Werner is a member of the Wakulla Karst Plain Project and its science director for the past 20 years.
Werner noted that it was in 2007 that the connection was made betwen Leon Sinks and the Wakulla Springs cave system.
The latest discovery in January of the link between Chip’s Hole and Wakulla cave system puts together a map of underwater caverns 45 miles long.
Werner said his presentation will focus on how the systems are interconnected around the county – and how residents may want to look at balancing development and economic growth and still protect the water resources.
He noted that while the enormous cave system is inaccessible to most people, just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
Others who use the local resources – hunters, fishers, hikers – need to know how the water in the cave system affects those resources.

Rivers Beneath Us, a look at the underground Wakulla Springs cave system by Dr. Chris Werner, will be held Tuesday, April 25,
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Wakulla Environmental Institute. It’s free.