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Summer/Fall 2021 | Vol 14 | No 2

On August 31, 2021, the eye-catching headline “To Stop Extreme Wildfires, California Is Learning From ... Florida?” brought readers and listeners to NPR Morning Edition coverage by Lauren Sommer.
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Long-term data sets are the bread and butter of the Tall Timbers Game Bird Program. Our long-term data sets for radio-tagged quail from the Red Hills, Albany and now Central Florida allow us to monitor different bobwhite populations and how they function. However, we often find ourselves lost in the numbers without focusing on the bigger picture. One major takeaway from looking at these data is that not all high density and stable populations are created in the same way.
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On June 24, 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 100, which repeals and replaces the M-CORES plan to build 330 miles of toll roads throughout Florida. SB 100 cancels plans for the Southwest Florida Connector toll road between Polk and Collier counties. Also gone are M-CORES various programs and initiatives that would have encouraged residential and commercial development in rural portions of Florida.
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Computer models using artificial intelligence, predicting fire behavior, adjusting for atmospheric feedback and ignition patterns may sound out of place for some long-time burners in the Southeast. However, these new tools and technology are critical for planning and supporting decisions to reintroduce fire in complex settings and to supplement training for the workforce needed to maintain and bring back “good fires” across our country.
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In 2019, Tall Timbers partnered with the USDA Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program (FSCP). The purpose of the program, funded in the 2018 Farm Bill, is to respond to the threat feral swine pose to agriculture, native ecosystems, and human and animal health. Tall Timbers’ project includes the Red Hills region from Tallahassee, Florida to Thomasville, Georgia, shouldered by the Ochlockonee and Aucilla rivers.
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The Western Pineywoods Quail Program established to restore bobwhite populations to east Texas By Brad Kupecka, Western Game Bird Program Director Texas is a well-known destination for quail hunters across […]
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When you work in watershed conservation, there are few things that get you down like seeing major, negative impacts to waterways right before your eyes. This was the case last week when Tall Timbers Field Biologist, Becc Armstrong, and I were out on a property visit in Jefferson County, Florida. We were looking down at a stream coursing through mature forest at the edge of a cattle pasture. Dozens of cows were standing in the creek ...
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Things that fluoresce under blacklight: the security thread in $100 bill, a forged “Old Master” painting, those groovy posters from the 70s, and the caterpillar of the frosted elfin butterfly.
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I’d venture a guess that almost every person reading this enjoys spending time outdoors. You probably have a property, a lake, a river, or a campsite that feels familiar and comfortable. It’s likely a place where some of your best outdoor memories occurred. But what about when you feel like exploring someplace new? How do you decide where to go?
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For the second summer in a row, Tall Timbers collaborated with the US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) to collect terrestrial LiDAR data and examine its use as a field monitoring technique. This interagency terrestrial LiDAR project dispersed six fellows across three states in the southeast region to gather data.
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The Fire Ecology and Fire Science labs have initiated a new long-term project to track forest community changes in a native shortleaf pine-oak-hickory community on Tall Timbers Research Station. This natural community type, regionally less well known than the longleaf pine-wiregrass community, has an open canopy of shortleaf pine and upland fire-loving hardwood trees such as mockernut hickory, post oak, southern red oak, white oak, and black oak.
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The event will be held on the lawn at Tall Timbers in front of the historic Beadel House. Festivities include a cocktail reception, silent and live auction, and dinner. The […]
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Nilo is an 11,000-acre property in the heart of the Albany, Georgia Quail Plantation belt, well known for its world class wild quail hunting and large whitetails. Nilo is Olin […]
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Kevin’s 5th Annual Southern Game Fair celebrates Thomasville’s authentic historical sporting lifestyle by bringing families and community together to promote the preservation of the longleaf pine forests and the bobwhite […]
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