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Posted by Juan V on 10:56:59 06/23/09
Two Barred Owls on Boca Chita Key last week, Biscayne National Park. Two Mangrove Cuckoos calling off Miami near midnight several nights ago (not giving location because I don't want tapes played there)
Tonight:
Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 7:30 p.m. at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Corbin Building, 10901 Old Cutler Road. Free and open to the public. Refreshments begin at 7:15. Merchandise sales are before and after the program (cash/checks only). Plant raffle follows the program.
"The Human and Natural History of South Florida" - Roger Hammer, Miami-Dade Parks.
Naturalist and author Roger Hammer will present a program on the history of South Florida, covering the time when South Florida became available for colonization by plants and animals, to the present. The talk includes the influences of people like Juan Ponce de Leon, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Henry Flagler, Julia Tuttle, Henry Perrine, and some early botanists.
Roger is Senior Interpretive Naturalist, Miami-Dade Parks Department, and Manager of Castellow Hammock Nature Center, since 1977. He is also a frequent speaker, instructor and field trip leader, wildflower photographer and author of three books: Everglades Wildflowers" (2000), Florida Keys Wildflowers" (2002) and Exploring Everglades National Park and The Surrounding Area" (2004). He was recipient of the first Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award presented by the Dade Chapter FNPS in 1982 for outstanding, consistent and constant service in the areas of education, research, promotion and preservation of native plants" and a Green Palmetto Award for Education from the FNPS in 2003.
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