Questions about this site?  Contact Craig Faulhaber (352) 732-1225

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NEW POSTINGS!

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.

Click this link to learn about the new scrub conservation bank in Highlands County.

FWC/FNAI's "Scrub Management Guidelines for Peninsular Florida: Using the Florida Scrub-Jay as an Umbrella Species" are now available!

There are new scrub-jay and habitat photos on the site!

Click here for notes from the Northeast Florida Scrub Ecosystem Working Group's Land Management Committee field trip to Orange County in May.

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HOT TOPICS

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. 

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."

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

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.