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Forest Stewardship Tour: Pine Ridge Sanctuary, Miami-Dade County

Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (ET)

Homestead, FL

Forest Stewardship Tour: Pine Ridge Sanctuary, Miami-Dade...

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Forest Stewardship Tour:    

Pine Ridge Sanctuary, Property of Barbara and Terry Glancy

January 21, 2012;    9:00 am – 2:00 pm ET, lunch included

Miami-Dade County, FL

 

Having earned much recognition for their hard work and exemplary conservation ethic, the Glancy family is looking forward to hosting a Forest Stewardship Tour at their Pine Ridge Sanctuary in Miami-Dade County.  Terry and Barbara Glancy purchased fifteen acres of degraded pineland in 1976 and began restoring the land by first removing exotic plants such as Brazilian pepper, Australian pine, Burma reed and Natal grass. Prescribed fire was introduced on the property in 1979. The Forest Stewardship Landowners of 1997 and 2011 Florida Land Stewards of the year, they are exemplary stewards of one of Florida’s most endangered ecosystems, the Pine Rockland. Pine Rocklands occur on the coastal Miami rock ridge, a limestone rock outcropping that extends south and west from North Miami Beach to Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park. Only one percent of the original 192,000 acres of this system still exists today as fragmented isolated islands.  The first Forest Stewardship Property south of Lake Okeechobee, Pine Ridge Sanctuary has earned Miami-Dade County’s Natural Forest Community classification and is a registered property with the Nature Conservancy.  The property has also been awarded the Florida Native Plant Society’s Overall State Landscape Enhancement Award.  Join us for a tour.  For more about the property and their orchid nursery, see http://www.PineRidgeOrchids.com

 
PDF announcement with directions and more details here.

 

 Event Cooperators:

Terry and Barbara Glancy

UF-IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation

UF-IFAS Miami-Dade County Cooperative Extension Service

Florida Forest Service

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service

Miami-Dade County Dept of Environmental Management

Institute for Regional Conservation

When & Where



Pine Ridge Sanctuary
21100 SW 300 Street
Homestead, FL 33030-7812

Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (ET)


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Hosted By

Florida Forest Stewardship Program



The mission of Florida's Forest Stewardship Program is to help and encourage landowners to actively manage their land for multiple benefits.

PROGRAM COOPERATORS:

UF-IFAS SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOURCES & CONSERVATION

UF-IFAS DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION

UF-IFAS COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE

FLORIDA FOREST SERVICE

FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION

USDA NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION SERVICE

FLORIDA SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE 

AND A HOST OF OTHER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERS AND SPONSORS