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Olasee Davis Leads Nature Hike on Lovango Cay
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Olasee Davis Leads Nature Hike on Lovango Cay

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During heavy rains, guts can become raging torrents. Reef Bay on St. John now has a seasonal waterfall and is an example of when streams once flowed all year round. Note the petroglyphs bottom right. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: The Importance of Guts in the Virgin Islands, Part 3

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This is the St. George waterfall, which is now seasonal due to the impact by man on the environment. The Mint Gut stream, which rises in Beck Grove hundreds of feet high in the hills, flows south through estates Allandale, Hope, and Diamond to the south shore of St. Croix. The St. George Gut, once a small river, connects east of Centerline Road to Mint Gut where the indigenous people would canoe upriver to Estate St. George. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: The Importance of Guts in the Virgin Islands, Part 2

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The Lebanon Gut, a stream tributary to Concordia Creek, and valley watered by stream also called Lebanon Hill Gut, because emerging from hills on Lebanon Estate. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: The Importance of Guts in the Virgin Islands, Part 1

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This is Plot No:, 50-1 & 50-4 Estate Orange Grove building or structure sitting right across of Golden Rock Shopping Center with many other small businesses. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: It’s Beyond Time to Rethink Our Land Zoning Process in the USVI

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We are not in full spring in the Virgin Islands until the thibet trees turn from tan to green leaves. This thibet tree at the side of the road in Estate Golden Grove on St. Croix is beginning to green — a good sign that full spring will be here in few weeks. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: Thibet Trees and Signs of Spring

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Crew members, professors, instructors, and scientists all worked together to accomplish SEA's mission during a recent voyage aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer. Olasee Davis is front row, second from right. (Photo courtesy Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: Environmental Lessons on the High Seas with SEA

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Walnut (Juglans regia). There are about 20 species of deciduous trees of the family Juglandaceae that are native to North and South America, Southern Europe, Asia, and the West Indies. However, eating walnuts regularly may improve brain health and reduce your rick of heart disease and cancer. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: The Ancient Plants and Herbs of the Bible, Part 4

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According to the late Arona Petersen, a West Indies Weed Woman of the Virgin Islands, dill (Anethum graveolens) "relieves gas pains, helps digestion, and is a stimulant for the brain." She also mentioned that oil of dill has carminative stimulant and aromatic qualities and can be used in various medicinal preparations and in foods as well. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: The Ancient Plants and Herbs of the Bible, Part 3

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Musk melon ( Cucumis melo) is also known as melon. It is a species of Cucumis that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. (Photo courtesy Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: The Ancient Plants and Herbs of the Bible, Part 2

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