Category: Conservation

Conservation District sets public working group meeting

by Kevin O'Horan
July 25, 2016

The Sarasota Soil and Water Conservation District has set an August 17 working group meeting to discuss local resource conservation concerns and programs. The meeting, which is open to the public, will start at 6:30 p.m. in the Ken Clark ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources
Tags: Conservation, Conservation District, Local Working Group, Natural, NRCS, Pgm, Pgm_NatResources, Pgm_SWCD, Resources, Soil, SSWCD, SWCD, Water

St. Joseph’s Bay Coastal Ecosystem Water School

by BLOGS.IFAS
July 25, 2016

Mark your calendars! The St. Joseph Bay Coastal Ecosystem Water School is a two-day educational experience taking place September 7th and 8th, 2016. Based at St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve and including field tours of coastal uplands, ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources
Tags: Conservation, Education, Environment, Environmentally Friendly, Florida, Natural Resources, St. Joseph Bay

UF/IFAS researcher: Taller, thinner crop beds save money, water, other resources

by BLOGS.IFAS
July 13, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Looking out over thousands of acres of tomatoes, Miguel Talavera, director of East Coast growing operations at Pacific Tomato Grower, Ltd., marvels at the narrow lanes of fruit that are thriving in the hot Florida sun. ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research

Take Advantage Of Curbside Recycling In Wakulla County

by BLOGS.IFAS
June 27, 2016

Be sure to check out this month's feature in The Green Scene. It is been a number of years since our county adopted curbside recycling. Since then there have been thousands of pounds of materials that avoided the landfill due to many citizens ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources
Tags: Conservation, Environment, Environmentally Friendly, Families & Consumers, Family And Consumer Sciences, Natural Resources, Recycling, Shelley Swenson, Sustainable Living, Wakulla, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Curbside Recycling

Grazing cattle are carbon neutral?

by BLOGS.IFAS
June 22, 2016

If others are to be believed, cows are major contributors to greenhouse gases. Thus, many advocate a reduction in livestock production to combat global warming. Climate change (aka global warming) is a real phenomenon. To date, May 2016 was ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Livestock, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Cattle, Climate, Grazing

Science teachers learn to spread the word about invasive plants

by Samantha Murray
May 31, 2016

When Kenny Coogan, a seventh-grade science teacher at Orange Grove Middle Magnet School, took an airboat ride on Lake Tohopekaliga and saw the devastation caused by invasive plants, he knew he had to bring this information back to his classroom. “After ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Forests, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Environment Hot Topic, Invasive Plants, Invasive Species, Plant Camp, UF/IFAS CAIP

To intervene or not to intervene: an individual-based approach to dynamics and persistence of the Florida panther population

by WEC
May 11, 2016

By Ronit Amit, PhD, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Department The return of Florida panthers (Puma concolor coryi) from the border of extinction can be seen as a conservation success in terms of increasing genetic diversity and population ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife

Wild Discoveries Explained

by BLOGS.IFAS
May 10, 2016

By Dr. Chris J. Mortensen, Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Sciences Never before in our history as a species have we faced the challenges that we face now. The United Nations now estimates a human population of over 10 billion people ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Livestock, Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Horses, Research, Wild Discoveries, Zoo

Youth take the plunge into environmental stewardship

by Samantha Murray
May 9, 2016

Can you tell me how old a fish is just by looking at a slice of bone? That’s one question youth will learn how to answer in the Manatee Marine Explorers Day Camp created by two University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Angela Collins, Environment Hot Topic, Florida Sea Grant, Michelle Atkinson, UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County

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