During a summer of headline-making wildfires around the world, about 80 land managers from across the region gathered at Naples Botanical Garden to practice preventing them. They do that by […]
Conservation
A Journey into Conservation with Cody Weber
This Natural Resources Associate shares more about a career transition from grocery lines to firelines, and the unwavering pull to support Southwest Florida’s ecosystems. Some people find peace in silence. I find […]
Before They Disappear
Conservationists comb the wilds of Rookery Bay gathering native seeds threatened by rising seas and rampant storms. Pine tree skeletons loom over Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Once hard […]
State of Flow
There are no other Everglades in the world. “They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is […]
Persuading the Flames
Practitioners reveal the science–and art–of redirecting nature’s sometimes deadly force for good A flamethrower inches along the Garden’s southern border, spewing an orange flame into a stand of pine trees. […]
Habitat on Fire
Recently, we burned a portion of our Florida scrub habitat, and what a sight to behold! Scrub is an arid landscape, and when it ignites—even under our carefully controlled conditions—plants […]
