Category: Conservation

Free Organic farm practices Workshop in Homestead: 01/05/15

by Vanessa Vassilaros
December 30, 2014

NCAT’s Gulf States office, in partnership with Quality Certification Services (QCS) of Gainesville, Florida, is offering a series of workshops about organic certification for producers in the Gulf States region. Three workshops are slated ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Professional Development, Turf, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Clase, Farm, Florida, Free, Grower, Homestead, Miami, Organic, Organico

APHIS Establishes Two Additional Regulated Area in Florida for Giant African Snail

by Vanessa Vassilaros
December 16, 2014

APHIS Establishes Two Additional Regulated Area in Florida for Giant African Snail (Lissachatina fulica, formerly Achatina fulica) To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials The Animal and Plant Health Inspection ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease
Tags: Florida, GALS, Giant African Land Snail, Pest, Quarantine, USDA

Adopt-A-Tree 2014

by BLOGS.IFAS
November 28, 2014

Tallahassee Democrat November 28, 2014 By Stan Rosenthal This year’s Leon County Adopt-A-Tree is the eastern mayhaw. This smaller tree has many common names such ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources
Tags: May Hawthorn, October - December 2014, Soils

Endangered green sea turtle, ‘IFAS,’ recovering from surgery

by Barbara L. Edmonds
November 10, 2014

Cutline below GAINESVILLE, Fla. – An endangered green sea turtle rescued last month in the lower Florida Keys was recovering today after surgery performed Friday to remove potentially life-threatening tumors from its eyes. Shelly Krueger, ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Florida Master Naturalist Program

Florida’s Wildlife Conservations Policy for Predicted Coastal Habitat Loss Problems

by BLOGS.IFAS
October 29, 2014

“Within the past five years, nine of the 14 villages in Nunavik in northernmost Quebec have had to install cooling systems at community ice hockey arenas to keep the rinks cold during winter.“- The Arctic in the Anthropocene: Emerging ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources
Tags: Coastal, Conservations, Florida’s, Habitat, Loss, Panhandle Outdoors, Policy, Predicted, Problems, Wildlife

UF/IFAS scientists count record number of threatened crocodile hatchlings

by Ken Gioeli
September 23, 2014

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A record number of American crocodile hatchlings have been counted in the Everglades National Park this summer -- a positive development for the threatened species, University of Florida scientists say. The American ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Threatened

Fluttering Into History

by Kevin O'Horan
September 19, 2014

Monarch butterflies are an ambassador of the insect world. We have all seen a monarch butterfly, brilliant orange and black flying gracefully from flower to flower in our landscapes. Many of us take for granted this gossamer visitor, and think ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Butterfly, Conservation, Gardens, Monarch, Poem, UF, Wildlife

UF Oyster Recovery Team sets Oct. 1 public meeting in Apalachicola

by Erik Lovestrand
September 4, 2014

SEPT. 19, 2014 UPDATE: The time-frame for the Oct. 1 workshop in Apalachicola has been adjusted. The workshop will start with sign-in and discussion at 2:00 p.m. and last until 4 p.m. SEPT. 18, 2014 UPDATE: The format for the Oct. ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources
Tags: Apalachicola Bay, Fishermen, Florida Sea Grant, Oyster, Oyster Collapse, Oyster Recovery, Oysters, UF Oyster Recovery Team

Wildlife Wanted

by Lara Milligan
August 22, 2014

It is hard to imagine what Pinellas County looked like in the early 1900s. Many long-time residents can share stories of US 19 as a one-lane dirt road, of 20 minute commutes from north to south county, of the open grasslands and cattle that ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources, Water, Wildlife

Floridians passionate about, but puzzled by, endangered and invasive species

by Patricia Standeford
August 18, 2014

Photo cutline below GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Floridians would likely support a 1 percent sales tax bump to prevent and eradicate disruptive invasive species, a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Alexa Lamm, Endangered, Frank Mazzotti, Jack Payne, PIE Center, Public Opinion Survey

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