Transformation Part 5 Tim's Tree Service

Part five of Transformation: Tim Digennaro visits the Loyolas regarding tree pruning, placement and what needs to go.

 

If you live in Lee County, Florida, you can call Tim to see if they can deliver a free load of mulch to you!

 

 

Come See Me at Lyonia Environmental Center

Saturday, June 29th at 3pm I will give a talk at the Lyonia Preserve in Deltona, Florida.
The address is 2150 Eustace Avenue, Deltona, FL.

 

To learn more about the Lyonia Preserve, please visit http://lyoniapreserve.com/

 

Sandy White Now a Spidey Grandma!

Congratulations to "Crazy Charlotte" and her web full of babies, born this morning at 8:30 am. When I went to the car this morning, Charlotte was out on the web, but scurried back behind the mirror as I approached. I hadn't seen her in awhile, and was relieved to see she was alright. After shopping for 45 mins, as I was getting into the car, I noticed all these little dark specks all over the web (which now covers half the driver's side window.) When I got home I took a closer look and they were perfect little spiders. One of the three egg cases had hatched! My camera won't let me get good closeups, but I promise you they are exact teeny replicas of Mom. I guess I'm now a Spidey Grandma!

 

 

Native Garden at NWF State College Grand Opening!

http://www.basinalliance.org/

 

FNPS State Conference 2014

The Coccoloba Chapter (Lee County, FL) of the Florida Native Plant Society along with the Mangrove Chapter (Charlotte County) and Zamia Chapter (Collier County) will be hosting the state conference in 2014. It will be held at FGCU, Florida Gulf Coast University and will include guest speakers, field trips, socials and native plant sales.

Dr. JC Cahill, of University of Alberta is all set to come speak to us at our 34th Annual FNPS Conference May 15-18, 2014.  For more information about him, please watch this PBS show:  www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/what-plants-talk-about/video-full-episode/8243

Urgent From Center for Biological Diversity

THIS is NOT OK! THIS is so wrong I cannot find the words to describe the outrage!!!

 

Dear Sue, Wolves Stripped of Protection -- Don't Let it Happen. Just hours ago the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it's stripping federal protection from virtually all wolves in the United States. In other words, it's gutting 40 years of wolf conservation and recovery -- even though wolves are still absent from the Northeast, California, and most of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. Without federal protections, wolves get killed. More than 1,600 have been slaughtered since federal protection was removed in the Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountains. Trophy hunts, leg traps, free-for-all shootings, extended “hunting” seasons -- all of these kill methods have been promoted as wolf “management” by states. The Center for Biological Diversity's legal team has to get into court right away to stop this terrible plan. Please help us with an emergency gift to our Wolf Defense Fund. Because this is such an emergency, a generous member who's devoted to wolves has offered to match all donations made by June 16. Your gift will go twice as far, so please help today if you can. The Center's legal team has a great track record of saving wolves. We've overturned illegal wolf killing decisions in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Wolves in Oregon today are protected by a court injunction won by the Center. But this will be the biggest wolf case yet, and we need your help to win it. The entire U.S. wolf recovery program is at stake. If this decision stands, wolves will never be reintroduced to California, the Northeast or the southern Rocky Mountains. Killing of the small population in Oregon and Washington will ramp up, preventing it from ever recovering. Make no mistake: Despite the government's warm and fuzzy PR spin, this decision is about ending wolf recovery in the United States once and for all. Our team of scientists, lawyers and activists has been preparing for this terrible decision, and now -- with your help -- they'll begin the biggest legal battle of the decade. If you're as sickened as I am by the killing, please help us stop it. Donate to the Wolf Defense Fund today. Because this is an emergency -- the end game, really, of all the wolf battles to date -- one of our members will match every gift made by June 16. Help us take advantage of this extraordinarily generous offer by donating as much as you can to the Center's Wolf Defense Fund and passing this appeal on to your friends and neighbors. For the wolves, Kierán Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity

WWW.NWF.ORG

The National Wildlife Federation can be a great resource for information, ideas and inspiration.
If you join, you receive a bi-monthly magazine with lots of great info.
For example, on June 22, they are having their 9th annual Great American Backyard Campout. To learn more, just go to their website, at www.backyardcampout.org

Also, NWF just certified Florida's Broward County School District, (that's right the WHOLE district!) as the nation's first School District Wildlife Habitat Site. More than 100 of the district's schools have schoolyard habitat sites.  Collier County is working on the same certification as well as certifying the County.  A good program for individual homesites, counties, schools and businesses. Imagine if you could promote your business as a NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat!