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Blue Bird Time

It's time to clean, repair and install the Eastern Bluebird nest boxes.
 
 
Here’s an easy way to increase your chances of bluebirds finding your box.
Add black painted holes on top and all sides of box. You can paint these on with black spray paint and a stencil, or marks-a-lot.

Florida's other immigration problem

Invasion: Florida's other immigration problem
BY MATT MARKEY AND JEFF BASTING
 http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/01/29/Invasion-Floridas-other-immigration-problem.html
 
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK — This is a place like no other — a nearly 2,400-square-mile subtropical wilderness area on the southern tip of the Florida peninsula — Everglades National Park. It is essentially a slow moving river of grass, fed by Lake Okeechobee to the north as it flows southwest to Florida Bay.
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Urban Eagles

sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-eagles-nest-20120126,0,5904039.story
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
As numbers grow, bald eagles edge near cities
By David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel
9:13 PM EST, January 26, 2012

scholarship deadlines

Grants And Awards
 
http://www.fosbirds.org/content/grants-and-awards
 
 
The Florida Ornithological Society annually considers applications for grants-in-aid of ornithological research and/or environmental education with a strong ornithological emphasis. Each grant or award is in memory of one or more individuals important to Florida ornithology. Previous awards have honored Helen G. and Allan D. Cruickshank, and Mary J. and William B Robertson. Award amounts are subject to approval by the FOS Board of Directors. In the past, successful proposals have received award amounts ranging from $500 to $3200.
 

Estuary Conservation Association forums

Estuary Conservation Association hosting manatee forum
                    

The Estuary Conservation Association is kicking off its annual forum series on coastal issues with a presentation next week on ecology and behavior of manatees.
Save the Manatee Club science director Katie Tripp and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission manatee biologist Denise Boyd are the speakers for the forum scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Pelican Isle Yacht Club, 410 Dockside Drive.
The forum, presented in partnership with the Barron Collier Jr. Foundation, is open to the public and is free to attend.
Other free forums are planned for Feb. 27 on inshore fishing, March 19 on environmentally sustainable boating and April 23 on sea turtles. They all start at 6:30 p.m. at the Pelican Isle Yacht Club.

Salazar Announces Establishment of Everglades Headwaters NWR

AMERICA’S GREAT OUTDOORS: Salazar Announces Establishment of Everglades Headwaters NWR and Conservation Area

Exemplifies Administration’s Successful Approach to Working Landscape Conservation
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – As part of President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today accepted the first donation of land in south-central Florida to officially establish the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area – conserving one of the last remaining grassland and longleaf pine savanna landscapes in eastern North America.

4 species of 'injurious' snakes banned in U.S. to protect Everglades

4 species of 'injurious' snakes banned in U.S. to protect Everglades
 
WPEC - CBS12.com
 
2012-01-17 09:54:30

THE EVERGLADES -- Several dangerous snakes are being banned from sale and import to the United States in an attempt to stem an invasion that is affecting native life in the Florida Everglades.
 

Lee Mosquito Control District

Lawmaker: Mosquito District Stings Taxpayers in Lee County

By: Kenric Ward | 
 
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/print/4364746
 

Released Panther Update

http://www.floridapanther.org/documents/Update%2001-12.pdf
 

Biologists: 32 Florida panthers born in 2011

  • By ASSOCIATED PRESS

TALLAHASSEE — State wildlife officials say the number of Florida panthers born last year appears to offset the number of documented panther deaths.

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