You may have noticed that the term algae and plant are separate in the title. Let’s begin our lesson there. Are algae plants? No… When I was in school (a long time ago) they did… Read More
Some folks are a little squeamish about amphibians, but for me, it’s always delightful to see a treefrog clinging to one of my windows after a rain. My calico cat is even more delighted, often… Read More
Friday, January 15, 2021 Walnut Hill Community Center (Ruritan) 7850 Hwy 97 Walnut Hill, FL 32568 COST: $15 per person TIME: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Attendees will learn the basics of applying pesticides correctly… Read More
To our knowledge, Earth is the only planet with life forms. Many believe there must be other locations in the universe that support life, but we have not found them yet. Of course, they could… Read More
Driving down Main Street near City Hall in Pensacola, you may notice curious new structures along the sidewalk. They look a bit like an abstract artist’s rendition of a tree–a single curved trunk lifting from… Read More
Health advisories are issued by the Florida Department of Health to alert the public of high levels of fecal bacteria in the waterways. The indicator bacteria used for these assessments are species of the genus… Read More
This will be our last Sea Grant Notes for 2020. MAN… what a year. Many of our projects had to be postponed, canceled, or altered to meet the COVID restrictions for social distancing. With that…… Read More
Prior to joining UF IFAS Extension, I spent three years as a compliance and enforcement field inspector with the local Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) office. It was a crash course in drinking water… Read More
The terms conservation and preservation are used interchangeably, but they actually mean different things. With preservation your goal is to keep the resource in a pristine state – as if humans were not in the… Read More
It sounds crazy, but one of my favorite places to be is in the middle of a salt marsh. Sure, there may be gnats and mosquitoes, shoe-sucking, rotten-egg-smelling sulfurous muck, and no shade. But the… Read More
