Clues Needed to Help Guana Find its Past
According to articles in both The Florida Times Union and the Ponte Vedra Recorder this week, reserve managers at the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve are looking for old photos of the area to determine what the original landscape looked like. In particular, photos taken of coastal strand between Jacksonville Beach and Daytona prior to 1950 are being sought. The managers believe that this landscape, just south of Ponte Vedra Beach , may have been far different from what it is today. They are also seeking clues recorded in journal entries and notes from naturalists and explorers that may have visited the area in the early part of the century. Mining, farming, and roadwork all came to the area and altered the landscape. It’s been undisturbed as a park for about a quarter of a century now, but whether this landscape returned to what it was originally has yet to be determined.
To share a photo with state researchers, e-mail images to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or bring old prints or journal entries to the Guana Environmental Education Center, 505 Guana River Road. Images will be scanned and returned. For more information, call (904) 823-4500.
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