Conservation, Restoration & Citizen Science · Apopka, Florida Native Plant Society, Sierra Club,...
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Conservation, Restoration &
Citizen Science
PRESERVING, CONSERVING, AND RESTORING THE NATIVE PLANTS AND PLANT COMMUNITIES OF FLORIDA
Presented by: Juliet Rynear, FNPS Conservation Chair
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Within and without …
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We’ve lost our connections to the life around us
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What is at stake?
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We have an Urgent Need to Save Plant
Species and Plant Communities
before it is too late!
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Imperilled Plant
Communities
Pine rockland
Upland glade
Keys cactus barren
Sandhill
Upland pine
Dry prairie
Limestone outcrop
Rockland hammock
Scrub
Upland mixed woodland
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Connections …
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Facebook Connections
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How can we reconnect with nature?
The 5 Step Plant
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Establish Connections ~ Educate and Engage,
Promote Participation and Advocacy
1.
Educate
2.
Engage
3.
Participate 4.
Advocate
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5.
Run for Public Office or support those who do
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Preserve
Conserve
Restore
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Creating more
consumers
≠
Mission
Don’t get stuck at Step 1
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Reclamation
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Restoration – prescribed fire, invasives removal
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Critically endangered sandhill
community supporting the 2nd largest
population of Warea amplexifolia. One
of only 7 remaining.
Most species
will never be sold in a nursery
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Connecting -
Through Citizen Science
• Outdoor classrooms
• Seed collection & floristic inventories
• Propagation & restoration on protected lands
• Statewide species mapping – Scott Davis
• Monitoring plant populations
• Habitat surveys & habitat monitoring
• Conservation Grant projects
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Outdoor Classrooms – creating citizen scientists
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Seed collection & floristic inventories:
The Importance of Citizen Scientists
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Plant Propagation
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Restoration on
protected lands
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Scott Davis Created a State-
Wide Milkweed Map:
• 1,170 colonies, and counting!
• We can’t reduce mowing and
manage populations if we don’t
know where they are.
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Scott Davis created a
State-Wide Rare
Species Map:
We can’t reduce mowing and
manage populations if we
don’t know where they are.
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Monitoring: The Importance of Citizen Scientists
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Monitoring Pawpaw – monitoring Deeringothamnus rugelii
(Rugel’s False PawPaw), a Citizen Science
project since 2012
Conradina - plant inventories at Malabar
Scrub Sanctuary and Ais Lookout Point Park
Nature Coast & Hernando - monitoring
Campanula robinsiae (Brooksville bell flower)
Heartland & Tarflower – monitoring numerous
rare species at several restoration sites
Cocoplum - Seagrass Surveys
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Roadside Milkweed Surveys: The Importance of CITIZEN SCIENTISTS
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Development Site Rescues
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Invasive Species Removal:
Citizen Participation
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Reducing Fuel Load
Fun with chainsaws
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Habitat Restoration - Reducing Fuel Load
Fun with chainsaws
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Run for Public Office
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Run for Public Office
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What Engaged Citizens Have Achieved
Mackay Gardens and Lakeside Preserve: a 123 acre property, with a historic
home, 115 acres of sandhill, scrub, slope forest, seepage slope, and
oak/hickory hammock communities.
Oakland Nature Preserve: 128 acres of uplands and forested wetlands south
of Lake Apopka, was acquired by a collaboration of The Friends of Lake
Apopka, Florida Native Plant Society, Sierra Club, and Audubon Society.
PEAR Park: 50 acres of Scrub Jay restoration, 5 acres of meadow restoration,
a nature center with a geology lab, and home to hundreds of species of plants,
animals, birds, and invertebrates.
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Connect and Protect
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Thank you!
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