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Tom Bayles
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Senior Environmental Reporter, WGCU Public Media
Fort Myers
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Biography
I cover all aspects of the environment for WGCU Public Media, NPR & PBS for Southwest Florida. I write happy brights to deep-dive enterprise stories and produce same as broadcast versions for NPR-member websites and our sister NPR radio stations throughout Florida after first publishing on WGCU.org and broadcasting on WGCU FM 90.1 FM. Also am on camera for PBS projects occasionally. Climate change, development issues in Southwest Florida, the Everglades restoration, invasive species, and water quality and quantity are among top priorities.
Schools, Religion, Business, Promotions, Public Relations, Sports, Travel, Entertainment, Ribbon Cuttings, Health, Cops, Courts, Advocacy, Politics
Content
By Tom Bayles Verified| WGCU Public Media Verified Underneath the 52-square-mile surface area of Sarasota Bay’s expansive range are seagrass meadows currently increasing in size, in health, and in biodiversity despite a population boom that started a hundred years ago and has yet to slow. Decades of efforts to restore the bay’s deteriorating water quality met with fits and starts, but mostly failure.
By Tom Bayles Verified| WGCU Public Media Verified Calusa Waterkeeper met at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theater Thursday to raise funds, discuss the state of the Caloosahatchee River, and learn more about the group’s mission during a lunch that doubled as an earth-science lesson in Southwest Florida’s environmental challenges. The waterkeeper sounds singular, but it refers to a passionate group of people dedicated to an environmental cause – in this case, the Caloosahatchee River and the 1,000 square miles around it.
By Tom Bayles Verified| WGCU Public Media Verified For nearly four months, the spillway in Moore Haven that allows water from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River has been wide open to lower lake levels before the rainy season. The water gushes out at billions of gallons a day, looking like class three rapids. That’s about to come to an end. Col. Brandon Bowman, who is in charge of the Army Corps of Engineers operations in Florida, called for the releases to stop Saturday.
Company Info
WGCU Public Media
The Mission of WGCU Public Media "To inspire, inform, educate, engage and entertain through the power of public media." WGCU Public Media is Southwest Florida's source for PBS and NPR. WGCU provides quality programming 24-hours a day and is a trusted story teller, teacher, theater, library and traveling companion. As a member-supported service of Florida Gulf Coast University, WGCU's mission is to provide educational programming that inspires, informs and engages our community.
Fort Myers, Florida, United States
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