Questions about this site? Contact Craig Faulhaber (352) 732-1225
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NEW POSTINGS!
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Applications for The Stewardship Grant (a.ka. the Florida Scrub-Jay Habitat Restoration/Management on Non-Federal Public Lands Grant) are now being accepted. The grant notice is available here.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: the Florida Native Plant Society is accepting applications for the 2010 Endowment Research and Conservation Grant Awards. Please visit the Awards and Grants section of the FNPS website for more information.
Looking for ways to get the public to report scrub-jay sightings? Palm Beach & Martin counties used a "Have you seen this bird" flyer, and Lake County used a website. Click here for a handout for tips to tell scrub-jays and blue jays apart.
FNAI is revising the Natural Community Guide. You can find drafts of the new chapters here.
Presentations from the September meeting of the Southeast Florida Scrub Ecosystem Working Group are now available.
Notes fromt the SW Florida Scrub Working Group Land Management Field Trip to Lemon Bay Preserve and Oscar Scherer State Park are available here.
The latest issue of the Cache, the newsletter of the SW Florida Scrub Working Group, is now available.
FWC/FNAI's "Scrub Management Guidelines for Peninsular Florida: Using the Florida Scrub-Jay as an Umbrella Species" are now available!
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HOT TOPICS
Outreach and education: The language of fire
The language we use to describe land management is important. Click here for information on words and messages that resonate with the public.
Private lands conservation
Do you know any private landowners interested in scrub management? Check out the programs available for private lands in these presentations. You can find links to even more opportunities here.
Want to learn more about conservation banking? Check out this article about conservation banking in Florida, and read this primer on the subject. You can also click this link to learn about the new scrub conservation bank in Highlands County.
You can contact FWC's private lands biologists by visiting this website.
Disease and scrub-jays
A fact sheet regarding scrub-jays and avian diseases can be found here. Information on Archbold Biological Station's efforts to study avian diseases is available here. If you are permitted to band scrub-jays, you can find recommendations for preventing the spread of avian pox by following this link.
Mechanical treatments in scrub
Interested in learning more about mechanical treatments? Check out these presentations from the Southwest Florida Scrub Working Group, this report from Archbold Biological Station, and the newly released "Scrub Management Guidelines for Peninsular Florida: Using the Florida Scrub-Jay as an Umbrella Species." You can also view videos from a demonstration at the Lake Wales Ridge Ecosystem Working Group meeting.
Ever wonder what conditions are needed for scrub to burn?
Steve Morrison of TNC has some ideas here.
You can help Steve expand on this study! If you have conducted prescribed burns in scrub, please visit this link for more information on how you can help.
Burned, burning and unburned scrub at Gould
Road, Lake Wales Ridge – For more photos with
information about management and machinery , go to:
Management Photos
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VIDEOS & AUDIO
Mechanical treatment demonstration
Check out these videos of a mechanical treatment demonstration from the Lake Wales Ridge Ecosystem Working Group meeting.
Learn from prescribed fire experts...
...with these interesting videos from the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center.
Ever heard the scrub-jay whisper song?
Check out this video.
Scrub-jay calls
Check out these audio clips of jay calls.
