Category: Conservation

Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ – Attract wildlife

by wholley
January 13, 2017

Imagine a backyard refuge where butterflies flit around, songbirds splash in a birdbath, and hummingbirds dart from flower to flower. It's a beautiful, serene scene; one that can benefit Florida wildlife. And you can make it real, with help ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, Wildlife
Tags: Animals, FFL, Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Habitat, Landscaping, Lawn, Nature, Pgm_HortRes, Wildlife

Nature Coast research internships give UF students an edge

by Samantha Murray
January 12, 2017

Last summer, Cory Gillis found himself waking before dawn at the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, where he’d been assigned to track the breeding calls of the northern bobwhite quail as part of an internship with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Forests, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Featured Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

Nature Coast research internships give UF students an edge

by Samantha Murray
January 12, 2017

Please see caption below story. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Last summer, Cory Gillis found himself waking before dawn at the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, where he’d been assigned to track the breeding calls of the northern bobwhite ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research

Big Bend Science Symposium puts research on public view

by Samantha Murray
January 11, 2017

Scientists on Florida’s Big Bend coastline spend their careers studying local ecosystems and finding solutions to challenges such as oyster reef decline or the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Feb 1 to 3, the second annual Big ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, Water
Tags: Featured Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station

Have a “Tree-mendous” Arbor Day!

by BLOGS.IFAS
January 11, 2017

Arbor Day has a 145-year history, started in Nebraska by a nature-loving newspaper editor who recognized the many valuable services trees provide. We humans often form emotional attachments to trees, planting them at the beginning of a marriage, ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources
Tags: Arbor, Panhandle Outdoors, “Treemendous”

Big Bend Science Symposium puts research on public view

by Samantha Murray
January 11, 2017

Please see caption below story. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Scientists on Florida’s Big Bend coastline spend their careers studying local ecosystems and finding solutions to challenges such as oyster reef decline or the impacts of the Deepwater ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research

Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ – Mulch

by wholley
January 4, 2017

Do you have an area where nothing will grow, an area of barren ground? A place that is hard to irrigate, mow or maintain? Consider mulching it. One of the Nine Principles of Florida-Friendly Landscaping™, mulching offers an aesthetic ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn
Tags: Conservation, FFL, Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Grass, Landscaping, Lawn, Mulch, Pgm_HortRes, Plants

Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ – Mulch

by wholley
January 4, 2017

Red Tides and Florida Manatees

by Brittany Hall-Scharf
January 4, 2017

Recently, we received questions regarding red tides and Florida manatees - What are red tides? Are red tides harmful to manatees? If so, what is being done to help our County's manatees? All great questions! Red tide blooms have been persistent ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Wildlife

Mapping Macaques: Studying Florida’s Non-Native Primates

by WEC
December 20, 2016

Each week on the blog we pull back the curtain on our Wildlife Ecology & Conservation graduate students’ seminar class. This post is by Elan Simon Parsons. If you look up and see a monkey in a tree, you might think you’re in the tropics—think ... READ MORE

Category: , Conservation, Forests, Invasive Species, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Conservation, Florida, Invasive, Monkeys, Rhesus Macaques, Silver Springs

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