It helps to have high school friends in the conservation world! Last week Jenna Valente interviewed me for her show on the American Shoreline Podcast Network, focused on how I found myself in the environmental field and what the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance does to restore the coast in Northwest Florida. Check it out via the…
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LTER – X Marks the Spot in the Jornada Desert
In the center of the grassland and shrubland of the Jornada LTER, I gaze across short mesh nets, arranged in an X and stretching approximately one foot across in each direction, sitting unobtrusively on the ground between mesquite, bushes, and snakeweed bunches. Spherical cottontail rabbit pellets congregated in the low places, and Josh Anderson, Reserve…
National Parks Traveler – Battling Lionfish at Biscayne Bay
Lionfish. Impossibly beautiful, incredibly invasive. Arriving on Florida’s shores in the 20th century, the initial lionfish population invasion probably resulted from an accidental or intentional release from a hobbyist fish tank. Since then, their numbers have exploded, stretching across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Reef species, lionfish cruise these aquatic habitats for prey, both outcompeting…
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