Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. When is the last time you changed the filters on your car or on your home air-conditioner? A dirty filter can be expe[...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. A century ago, much of South Florida was wilderness that humans thought needed taming. "Drain the swamps" was a refra[...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. When thinking of wetlands, it's important not to forget the land; it is wet land that we're talking about. Many creat[...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. Water is essential for life and we find the greatest abundance and diversity of life in wetlands where there are the [...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. Water: it's the elixir of life. All living creatures need water to survive and the quality of that water influences t[...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. Divers in Florida sinkholes have made astonishing discoveries of evidence of prehistoric life. Bones of mastodons, ca[...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. Sinks result from collapse of limestone rock that was eroded away by water. We sometimes find chains of sinks, one de[...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. One of Florida's largest sinkholes, and the only officially designated state geological site, is Devil's Millhopper S[...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. As Florida's human population grows, the incidence of sinks occurring in populated areas has grown. Sometimes, this h[...]

Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. Sinks, or sinkholes, are holes on the Earth's surface where underlying rock has collapsed. Water collects in sinkhole[...]