The Journey to Recovery: The Fight for Preservation of the Florida Panther

Tallahassee Family Magazine

In late September 2017, a car struck an endangered Florida Panther, marking the 18th collision this year. Automobiles stuck 34 panthers in 2016, potentially accounting for 14-28% of their estimated current population.

Florida Panthers are a critically endangered subspecies of puma. They historically occupied the Gulf States from Florida to Louisiana—including Arkansas and parts of Tennessee—but their vast population decrease has limited their range to southwest Florida. The decimation of this species is predominantly due to human intervention...

Unfriendly Climate: Politics, the Environment, and the Search for Truth

Tallahassee Family Magazine

The international call for action on climate change is concise; with 195 signatories, the U.S. will become the third country in the world – alongside Nicaragua and Syria – to withhold from the agreement. This move exemplifies a perversion of the global consensuses on climate change that has ignited the environmental community...

The Step of Life: A Glimpse into Pas De Vie

Tallahassee Family Magazine

It’s been 40 years since Nathalia Botha stepped into the world of dance – since then, she has studied ballet around the world and has led a career as a professional dancer. After 40 years of honing her craft, she and her husband Charles Hagan opened Pas de Vie Ballet, or Step of Life...

From Silver to Silver: An Artist's Transformation

Tallahassee Family Magazine

After almost three decades of teaching at Tallahassee Community College, Barbara Edwards has become a staple in the local photography community. She recently switched venues and mediums to open up "Silver Euphorium," a small studio and shop in Railroad square that sells handmade jewelry (and some black and white film photographs, of course)...

Restaurant in the Front, Farm in the Back: Backwoods Crossing Comes to Tallahassee

Tallahassee Family Magazine

Okra, rainbow quinoa and scarlet kale grow in-house at Backwoods Crossing, the only "farm-to-table" restaurant of its kind in Florida. The traditional farm-to-table model targets customers that value locally grown ingredients in their food; to meet this demand, some restaurants assure their ingredients are grown by farmers in their local community. Backwoods Crossing, however, takes this model one step further...

Sharks and Chablis is all about the Turtles

The Tallahassee Democrat

The Gulf Specimen Marine Lab will host Sharks and Chablis, an annual fundraiser benefitting their Sea Turtle Rescue Program, from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday. The Marine Lab in Panacea plays an essential role in marine research and education and is the state’s leader in sea turtle rehabilitation. Sharks and Chablis’s keynote speaker will be National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, creator of the Photo Ark...

Domi Station Serves as a Hub for Tallahassee Entrepreneurship 

FSView and Florida Flambeau

It’s midnight when a half-asleep student rolls out of bed to search for a paper and pen. She doesn’t bother turning on a light, she simply scribbles the guts of her idea in the dark. She returns to bed wondering if this idea could be the one that takes off. When the light of morning comes, the scribbled-on paper is shoved into a pile, never to be seen again.

In our society, entrepreneurs are praised for their innovative ideas. The successful thinkers often rise to the top of the food chain and instill envy in others who ask themselves, 'What if I had thought of that...’

A Climber's Guide to the Flat Florida Wasteland

FSView and Florida Flambeau

Florida is the flattest state in the U.S., which is not good news for its resident rock climbers. For a community that thrives on an abundance of large rocks, Florida is unfortunately a crag-less wasteland.

“A desperate Florida climber will start climbing slimy limestone they find in a sinkhole,” said John Miller, the vice president of the Climbing club at FSU. “I know some climbers that once repelled into a sinkhole and couldn’t climb their way out...”