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Apalachicola River
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The river is formed on the state line between Florida and Georgia, near the town of Chattahoochee, Florida, approximately {{convert|60|mi}} northeast of Panama City, by the confluence of the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers. The actual confluence is contained within the Lake Seminole reservoir formed by the Jim Woodruff Dam. It flows generally south through the forests of the Florida Panhandle, past Bristol. In northern Gulf County, it receives the Chipola River from the west. It flows into Apalachicola Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, at Apalachicola, Florida. The lower {{cvt|30|mi}} of the river is surrounded by extensive swamps and wetlands, except at the coast.The watershed contains nationally significant forests, with some of the highest biological diversity east of the Mississippi RiverBOOK, White, P.S., S.P., Wilds, G.A., Thunhorst, 1998, Southeast, 255â314, M.J. Mac, P.A. Opler, C.E. Puckett Haecker, P.D. Doran, Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources, 2 volumes, US Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, JOURNAL, Keddy, Paul A., Thinking Big: A Conservation Vision for the Southeastern Coastal Plain of North America, Southeastern Naturalist, 1 July 2009, 8, 2, 213â226, 10.1656/058.008.0202, 73678050, and rivaling that of the Great Smoky Mountains. It has significant areas of temperate deciduous forest as well as longleaf pine landscapes and flatwoods. Flooded areas have significant tracts of floodplain forest.BOOK, Messina, M.G., W. H., Conner, 1998, Southern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida, All of these southeastern forest types were devastated by logging between 1880 and 1920,BOOK, Michael Williams (geographer), Williams, Michael, 1989, The lumberman's assault on the southern forest, 1880â1920, 238â288, M. Williams, Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and the Apalachicola contains some of the finest remaining examples of old growth forest in the southeast. The endangered tree species Florida torreya is endemic to the region; it clings to forested slopes and bluffs in Torreya State Park along the east bank of the river. The highest point within the watershed is Blood Mountain at {{convert|4458|ft|m|0|abbr=on}}, near the headwaters of the Chattahoochee River.Where the river enters the Gulf of Mexico, it creates a rich array of wetlands varying in salinity. These include tidal marshes and seagrass meadows. Over {{cvt|230,000|acre}} of this diverse delta complex are included within the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve.WEB, National Estuarine Research Reserves - Apalachicola,weblink floridadep.gov, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, October 9, 2021, There are also dunes with coastal grasslands and interdunal swales.File:Torreya Park Apalachicola River pano02.jpg|thumb|250px|View of Apalachicola River at Torreya State ParkTorreya State Parkmissing image!
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View of the Apalachicola River near Fort Gadsden, Florida
The basin of the Apalachicola River is also noted for its Tupelo honey, a high-quality monofloral honey, which is produced wherever the tupelo trees bloom in the southeastern United States. In a good harvest year, the value of the tupelo honey crop produced by a group of specialized Florida beekeepers approaches $900,000 each spring.JOURNAL,weblink dead, Gulf County, Impact, Paul, Kimpel,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090319130345weblink">weblink University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, 17, 2, 19, March 19, 2009, October 9, 2021, During Florida's British colonial period, the river formed the boundary between East Florida and West Florida. Geologically, the river links the coastal plain and Gulf Coast with the Appalachian Mountains.BOOK, Delcourt, H. R., P. A., Delcourt, 1991, Quaternary Ecology: A Paleoecological Perspective, London, Chapman and Hall, Some of the remaining important areas of natural habitat along the river include Apalachicola National Forest, Torreya State Park, The Nature Conservancy Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve, Tates Hell State Forest, and Apalachicola River Wildlife and Environmental Area, as well as the Apalachicola River Water Management Area. It has been suggested that this watershed should be nationally ranked and appreciated as being as significant as the Everglades or Great Smoky Mountains. To raise awareness about the importance of preserving the natural state of the river and its inhabitants, Florida film producer Elam Stoltzfus highlighted this system in a 2006 documentaryWEB,weblink Apalachicola River: An American Treasure, apalachicolaamericantreasure.com, Elam S. Stoltzfus,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070808014724weblink">weblink August 8, 2007, dead, October 9, 2021, broadcast on PBS.The river forms the boundary between the Eastern and Central time zones in Florida, until it reaches the Jackson River. Thereafter, the Jackson River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico, is the time zone boundary.49 C.F.R. § 71.5(f).- Apalachicola River.jpg -
View of the Apalachicola River near Fort Gadsden, Florida
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See also
- List of Florida rivers
- South Atlantic-Gulf Water Resource Region
- Voices of the Apalachicola
- Water wars in Florida
References
{{reflist}}Further reading
- Boyce, S.G., and W.M. Martin. 1993. The future of the terrestrial communities of the southeastern United States. Pp. 339â366, In W.H. Martin, S.G. Boyce, and A.C. Echternacht (Eds.). Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States, Lowland Terrestrial Communities. Wiley, New York, NY.
- Light, H.M., M.R. Darst, and J.W. Grubbs. (1998). Aquatic habitats in relation to river flow in the Apalachicola River floodplain, Florida [U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1594]. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
External links
{{Commons category|Apalachicola River}}- National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Flint-Chattahoochee-Apalachicola basin {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927053808weblink |date=2011-09-27 }}, US Army Corps of Engineers
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20040816094223weblink">Apalachicola River Ecological Management Plan (archived), Florida State University
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091005112716weblink">Apalachicola River Watershed (archived), protectingourwater.org
- Apalachicola River Wildlife and Environmental Area at myfwc.com
- Apalachicola Riverkeeper, an organization focused on the protection of the Apalachicola
- Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve at nature.org
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20061002170330weblink">Northwest Florida Water Management District (archived)
- {{GNIS|305219|Apalachicola River}}
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