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Crippled Apalachicola River leaves wetland forests in peril, famous oysters extinct Part II of the Orlando Sentinel series looks at a North Florida river in decline.     Georgia Ackerman, director of the Apalachicola Riverkeeper group, ventures into the river’s final section near Apalachicola Bay. [Kevin Spear | Orlando Sentinel] [ Orlando Sentinel ] By Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel Published Dec. 29, 2020 The Apalachicola River descends 106 miles across the Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico as the creator and caretaker of Florida’s largest forested floodplain, sandbar beaches, breezy bluffs, coastal marsh and a fertile relationship with Apalachicola Bay. Tan, old but fast for a Florida river, the “Apalach” was a waterway for indigenous tribes, carried barges until late into the last century and lures kayakers today. It is the state’s largest river by volume and a United Nations biosphere reserve.

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