by Amy Howard | Jun 9, 2025 | Learn, Paradigm
When I built the Nature section of Paperless Ponte Vedra, I looked to GBIF for a list of reported nature sightings. As of this writing, the GBIF aggregator had logged 3,117,737,422 individual reports of nature sightings around the globe. Is that billions? Thankfully,...
by Amy Howard | Jun 8, 2025 | Paradigm
I have gathered species lists from FWC, GTM, and iNaturalist. Every time I think I’ve found the MASTER list, I find another source of sightings that wasn’t included in the others. At this point, I believe the closest we have to a master list is the Global...
by Amy Howard | Jun 8, 2025 | Paradigm
I used GBIF to generate my starting list of plants and animals that have been reported in Ponte Vedra and Ponte Vedra Beach. However, I disagreed with the official boundary as pertains to nature. It was missing a huge wedge directly across the river from my station at...
by Amy Howard | Jun 7, 2025 | Paradigm
St. Johns County defines Ponte Vedra as the combined boundaries of zip codes 32081 and 32082. I have searched high and low to find that statement on the county website. I know I saw it somewhere. Until I find it again, this Zip Codes map will have to suffice. It is...
by Amy Howard | May 29, 2025 | Paradigm
Photograph by Amy Howard Don’t get stuck on an oyster reef! The St. Augustine inlet brings two tides a day into Guana River. The nearest tide marker is at the Vilano Bridge (forgive me, Frank and Mary). John L. told me there’s a 45 minute delay between the...
