Category: Forests

How it Happened: Tall Timbers Fire-Wildlife Research

by IFAS Advancement
July 18, 2024

When Edward Beadel purchased Hickory Hill Plantation, north of Tallahassee, Florida, in 1895, he saw an opportunity for a seasonal escape from the confines of his native New York City. The wide tracts of longleaf-wiregrass forests just south ... READ MORE

Category: , Conservation, Forests, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Tags: Beadel Family, Fire Ecology, Herbert Stoddard, How It Happened, Prescribed Burns, Quail, Tall Timbers Research Station, UF/IFAS, WEC

How it Happened: The Stern Learning Center and Scholarship Endowments

by IFAS Advancement
July 6, 2023

Roland Stern was born to be outside. His office was the green fields of his family farm; his conference room a timber clearing in the thick pine forests of north central Florida. He spent as much time sitting on his tractor as most people ... READ MORE

Category: Forests, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS
Tags: Austin Cary Forest, Endowment, FFGS, Forestry, Go Greater, How It Happened, Lucinda Stern, Scholarship, Stern Learning Center, Timber, UF/IFAS, University Of Florida

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