Category: Natural Resources

UF/IFAS Extension team wins national award

by Samantha Murray
August 31, 2016

The National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) has recognized Mace Bauer, agriculture agent with University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension Columbia County, for excellence in sustainability education ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Drip Irrigation, Featured Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Suwannee Valley Agricultural Extension Center, Water Conservation

UF/IFAS researchers scramble to find cure for tenacious, costly sugarcane virus

by Tennille Herron
August 30, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Researchers with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are working to find a cure or develop resistant varieties for a virus that is attacking sugarcane and sorghum throughout the Everglades ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Invasive Species, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Entomology And Nematology

The Return of the Bay Scallop to Pensacola Bay?

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 29, 2016

MAN do folks in the Florida panhandle like scallops. I recently visited boat ramps at Steinhatchee and Keaton Beach (in the Big Bend) and the parking lots were full of trucks and boat trailers belonging to people combing the grassbeds of the ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Panhandle Outdoors, Pensacola, Return, Scallop

It’s Sea Turtle Hatching Time… what you can do to help them

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 27, 2016

It is August, we are just off another successful Sea Turtle Baby Shower event in the Pensacola area, and we are in peak season for sea turtle hatching. Those little guys have a tough road to follow trying to emerge from their nest to reach the ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Hatching, Help, It’s, Panhandle Outdoors, Them, Time, Turtle

Five new positions to tackle water sustainability

by Samantha Murray
August 26, 2016

Though counties and water management districts may operate within set boundaries, water doesn’t stick to a jurisdiction. To address this reality, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension has created five ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Featured Hot Topic, Water Resources Regional Specialized Agents

Rough Earth Snake Is Common In Eastern U.S.

by Tennille Herron
August 26, 2016

By Les Harrison Wakulla County Extension Director Words are a curious human creation. Each has at least one meaning or implication to the listener. The terms used today date back to long before recorded history began. Countless academics ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Environment, Florida, Natural Wakulla, Nature, North Florida, Snakes, The Wakulla News, Wakulla County Extension, Wildlife

Giant wasp making you nervous?

by Adam Dale
August 26, 2016

This is a guest post by Lauren Webb, a research assistant in the Dale Lab in the UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology Department. Have you ever seen a wasp nearly the length of a large paperclip? Perhaps on the ground or flying around? Maybe ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: #ufbugs, Entomology, FAQ, Insects, Landscapes, Turf

Water in the South Central Extension District: Big Issues Part II

by marylusk
August 25, 2016

~A look at National Estuary Programs on Florida's Gulf Coast and 5 things we can do to protect them If you live in Florida, chances are you have a water story. Whether it involves childhood memories of a day at the beach, water skiing on ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Turf, Water
Tags: Caloosahatchee, Charlotte Harbor, Estuary, Sarasota Bay, Tampa Bay, UF IFAS Water Agents

Bay County Deploys First Super Reefs in Panama City Beach

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 19, 2016

Earlier this year, Bay County completed an artificial reef project in Gulf waters approximately 3 nautical miles (nm) south of the Panama City Beach Pier (Pier Park) and 11 nm west of St Andrew Bay Pass in Small Area Artificial Reef Site D. ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, Water
Tags: Beach, City, County, Deploys, First, Panama, Panhandle Outdoors, Reefs, Super

Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ – Right plant, right place

by wholley
August 17, 2016

Many homeowners turn to their yards when it comes time to bump up the beauty and pump up the property value, only to watch in mounting frustration as plant after plant withers under blazing sunlight or sags in torrential rains. If only they'd ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Conservation, FFL, Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Horticulture, Landscaping, Lawn, Pest, Pgm_HortRes, Plant, Pollinator, Pollinators, Sustainability, Water, Wildlife, Yard

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