Isaac Eger

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Isaac Eger

Does the Gulf’s recent name change seem important to you? “The subtitle of my book is ‘The Making of an American Sea.’ The name change is, in some ways, a natural corollary to everything else we’ve done. We have made it an American sea by industrializing it, overpopulating and overbuilding the coast—dominating it and polluting it.

1 month ago | yoursun.com | Isaac Eger

Grove Ladder Farm sits at the end of a dirt road deep in DeSoto County. Owned and operated by Tim and Chelsea Clarkson, the farm’s 13 acres spread out in green pastures shaded by giant oaks draped with Spanish moss. A scarecrow named Gertrude watches over a vegetable garden with bouquets of broccoli ready to pick, while two Great Pyrenees dutifully guard grazing sheep and ewes. kAm%96 72C> 2=D@ 3@2DED 2 7=@4< @7 C@F89=J 2 E9@FD2?5 49:4<6?D E92E 92AA:=J C@2> E96 8C@F?5D] (96? %:> C624965 5@H?

Jan 17, 2025 | sarasotamagazine.com | Isaac Eger

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the March 2020 issue of Sarasota Magazine. On a warm March afternoon at Lemon Bay Park, I watched a fire turn bright-green saw palmettos orange. It charred cabbage palm trunks, and flames jumped 20 feet to torch low hanging fronds. A wall of heat pushed out, and smoke billowed onto a nature path where passing hikers used their shirts to cover their mouths and noses. Tidy suburban houses stood fewer than a hundred yards away.

Sep 25, 2024 | sarasotamagazine.com | Isaac Eger

So you've done all you can to prepare for a storm. Your house is sandbagged, you’ve stocked up on canned food and bought more batteries in a couple days than you have in the past 10 years. Now what? Sit and worry? Big mistake! This isn’t the London Blitzkrieg. It’s out of your hands now. You don’t have to lie down and wait in the fetal position. It’s Florida tradition to have yourself a little hurricane party. And what’s a party without some music?

May 30, 2024 | sarasotamagazine.com | Isaac Eger

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the July 2019 issue of Sarasota Magazine. Registration for the 2024 Python Challenge opened May 30, 2024. The wet heat of summer nights in the Everglades brings the snakes out. That’s when Dusty “Wildman” Crum slogs barefoot through this swamp in pursuit of the Burmese python. Between 87 and 99 percent of the Everglades’ mammal populations have disappeared because of the invasive snakes, which now number nearly 300,000 in southern Florida.