Category: Academics

UF researchers begin Gainesville tree inventory

by Suzette Cook
June 26, 2024

GAINESVILLE, FL – Be on the lookout for University of Florida researchers donning orange vests as they measure trees throughout Gainesville, as part of a study funded by the City of Gainesville. For the next two years, a team led by Associate ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences, Tree Study, Urban Forest Management Plan, Urban Forestry

Kids in the Woods, All Grown Up

by Suzette Cook
June 26, 2024

Former Westwood Middle School students Andrew Baker and Kody Brock were in sixth grade when they first met Assoc. Professor Dr. Michael Andreu during a field trip to Loblolly Woods Nature Park in Gainesville. Andreu, whose appointment at ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, EVENTS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Kids In The Woods, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences, Timber, Undergraduates

UF forestry experts team up to deliver course for landowners

by Suzette Cook
June 26, 2024

IT’S BEEN A YEAR since the new category “Forest Resources and Management” was added to the University of Florida IFAS Extension Online Learning Catalog. That portal became a point of access to online educational content developed ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Forests, Recreation, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Floridalandsteward, Forest Landowner Academy, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences

UF Fishing for Success program receives $2,000 grant

by Suzette Cook
June 26, 2024

GAINESVILLE, FL -- The University of Florida’s Fishing for Success (FFS) program has been awarded a $2,000 grant from the League of Environmental Educators in Florida (LEEF). The annual LEEF Mini-grant Program was established to promote ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, EVENTS, Recreation, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Family Fishing Days, Fishing For Success, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences

Cantore’s live reports from a UF/IFAS building delivered powerful lesson on storm surge danger

by Suzette Cook
June 26, 2024

It was University of Florida IFAS Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Professor Mike Allen who handed a key to veteran Weather Channel Meteorologist Jim Cantore with the following instructions: Once Cantore and his camera crew entered the building, ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Coasts & Marine, Disaster Preparation, EVENTS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Aquaculture, Cantore, Cedar Key, Hurricane Idalia, Hurricane Preparation, Hurricane Recovery, Hurricane Season, NCBS, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences, UF/IFAS

Annual Tax Tips for forest landowners addresses changes for 2023 tax year

by Suzette Cook
June 26, 2024

Advice on Timber Tax Tips for the 2023 tax year is now available from the U.S. Forest Service, USDA, and academic partners from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and The University of Georgia Warnell School ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, Forests, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Forest Management, Longleaf Pine, Natural Resource Conservation, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences, SFFGS, Tax Tips, Timber

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