New Tall Timbers Membership Opportunities and Benefits
Tall Timbers has expanded its membership opportunities and added some perks. The more you invest (yes, it is an investment!), the more benefits you receive. Two new levels have been added with lower contribution levels to provide an entry for those who may want to try us out. We have also expanded our program specific giving opportunities allowing you to more easily contribute to programs you are interested in supporting.
We Need Your Support – Become a Tall Timbers Member Today!
Annual membership gifts help support the day-to-day operations of Tall Timbers and are the lifeblood of our organization. As a charitable non-profit, Tall Timbers relies on the generous financial support of our members to help sustain the important research, conservation and education programs within the organization.
Please take a moment to tour our website, to learn about our programs and to join others like you as a member of Tall Timbers. You can Join, Renew or Make a Gift of membership online using our secure website.
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The Tall Timbers eJournal and Firebird publications are two of them
Annual membership gifts help support the day-to-day operations of Tall Timbers and are the lifeblood of our organization. As a charitable non-profit, Tall Timbers relies on the generous financial support of our members to help sustain the important research, conservation and education programs within the organization.
Tall Timbers has two new membership levels, an Associate membership at $35 per year and a Youth membership at only $15 per year. The Associate membership provides a subscription to our new digital magazine the Tall TimberseJournal, the Firebird e-newsletter from the Stoddard Bird Lab, a Tall Timbers decal, and a subscription to the Tall Timbers eNews, as well as invitations to education programs and events. The Youth membership provides a subscription to the Tall Timbers eNews; invitations to education programs and events (must be 18 or younger).
New editions of the Tall TimberseJournal and Firebird e-newsletter will be published this spring. These will only be sent to members at the Associate level and above. Don’t miss out on these two publications, if your are not a member, join today!
On April 1, Tall Timbers hosted members of the newly created Advancement Committee at a lunch meeting held at the Komarek Science Education Center on the Tall Timbers campus. The Advancement Committee, a sub-committee of the Tall Timbers Board of Directors Development and Communications Committee, is a program that seeks to enlist talented individuals to jointly work to advance the organization’s conservation and research goals. Members of the Advancement Committee will provide outreach within their individual communities and areas of interest to provide new audiences and resources for Tall Timbers.
Pictured L-R: Elizabeth Barron, Eddie Sholar, Cindy Phipps, Lou Hill, Elliott Davenport, David Middleton, Haile McCollum, William Smith, Ben McCollum, Tom Loughlin. Not pictured: Rob Langford, Lisa Phipps, Sid Bigham, Bill D’Alonzo, Northrup Knox.
Rob Langford, Broker Southern Land Realty Tallahassee, FL
William Smith Corporate and Professional Banking Capital City Bank Group Tallahassee, FL
Ben McCollum, Broker The Wright Group Thomasville, GA
Lisa S. Phipps Owner, Artisan Chic Verte Tallahassee, FL
Haile Parker McCollum Owner, Creative Director Fontaine Maury Brand + Design Thomasville, GA
Sid Bigham, III Senior Attorney Florida Department of Environmental Protection Tallahassee, FL
Tom Loughlin, CFP Financial Advisor Signator Investors, Inc. Tampa, FL
Bill D’Alonzo CEO-Retired Friess Associates Wilmington, DE
Elliott Davenport, Jr. The Wings Group, LLC Chattanooga, TN
Louis Hill, M.D. Retired Tallahassee Plastic Surgery Clinic Tallahassee, FL
David Middleton Principal MMHP Investment Advisors Thomasville, GA
The Tall Timbers eJournal and Firebird publications are two of them
Annual membership gifts help support the day-to-day operations of Tall Timbers and are the lifeblood of our organization. As a charitable non-profit, Tall Timbers relies on the generous financial support of our members to help sustain the important research, conservation and education programs within the organization.
Tall Timbers has two new membership levels, an Associate membership at $35 per year and a Youth membership at only $15 per year. The Associate membership provides a subscription to our new digital magazine the Tall TimberseJournal, the Firebird e-newsletter from the Stoddard Bird Lab, a Tall Timbers decal, and a subscription to the Tall Timbers eNews, as well as invitations to education programs and events. The Youth membership provides a subscription to the Tall Timbers eNews; invitations to education programs and events (must be 18 or younger).
There are many more membership levels and associated perks. If you are not a member, join today!
Join Us for the 18th Annual Kate Ireland Memorial Dinner & Auction
The 18th Annual Kate Ireland Memorial Dinner & Auction will be held Sunday evening, September 20, 2015 at Pebble Hill Plantation – Uno Hill Barn, Thomas County, Georgia, and will be catered by Liam’s Restaurant of Thomasville, GA. The festivities include a cocktail reception, a silent and live auction, and a Red Hills Region inspired dinner. Tall Timbers is so honored to have The Kate Ireland Foundation and North Florida Animal Hospital as presenting sponsors for this year’s event. These presenting sponsors along with our event sponsors, guests, and donors are essential to successfully fulfilling our mission.
Named in honor of one of Tall Timbers’ most treasured supporter, the Kate Ireland Memorial Dinner & Auction is a fundraising event held annually benefitting Tall Timbers Foundation, Inc., for Tall Timbers research and conservation programs. This event attracts bidders not only from within the Red Hills Region, but due to auction items unique to this event, our auction attracts a national audience. Each year the auction features an inspiring collection of world class artwork, unparalleled hunting and fishing opportunities, and unique offerings from the Red Hills Region and beyond. The auction will also available online; going live on September 1, and closing on September 18, when all bids will be transferred to the evening of the event for final bids.
If you would like more information on the online auction, please contact the Development Office at (850) 893-4153, x 249.
The M-CORES program, which includes the proposed Suncoast Connector Toll Road in Jefferson County, passed through the Florida Legislature at breakneck speed with little review or analysis. Tall Timbers has a number of concerns given the potential for significant and wide spread impacts. These include fragmenting public and private conservation lands, robbing business from Main Street Monticello, impacting our rivers and other water resources, and making prescribed fire more difficult and costly.
Join us in asking the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners to OPPOSE the Suncoast Connector toll road and its path through Jefferson County.
Take action now with our easy email form.
Send an email to all five Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners with one click!
Selected Publications authored by Wildland Fire Science staff.
Educating and guiding the next generation of fire researchers and managers is a key goal of Wildland Fire Science and a resource for testing new ideas in fire research.
Tall Timbers hosts the Prescribed Fire Science Consortium, a national network of researchers and managers who promote integrated research and management to advance next generation tools for fire practitioners. https://arcg.is/1DSjDT
Working with partners in the Prescribed Fire Science Consortium, the program is building nexgen 3-D fuel beds using terrestrial LiDAR and novel sampling techniques to power new fire behavior models for prescribed fire managers. This work links to Tall Timbers work in wildlife habitat usage and ecological forestry.
Tall Timbers is leading an effort to map fire regimes at the landscape scale. Staff work with numerous agencies to evaluate fire records and satellite imagery to build this critical conservation database. https://skfb.ly/6DqOY
We are linking physics and field observations to understand the fluid dynamics of fire behavior surface fire regimes. Our work combines field observations using advanced thermal imaging techniques, laboratory studies, and coupled fire-atmospheric modeling to help managers improve outcomes of managed fire regimes.
Burn prioritization modeling seminars and fire modeling tools are supported by Wildland Fire Science to train managers in the important planning stages of prescribed fires.
The conserved lands of the Greater Red Hills region are found on working, income-producing properties that support agriculture, forestry, and recreational hunting. These properties contribute $272 million annually to local economies and support 2,300 jobs. [link to Planning & Advocacy section] The landowners’ strong stewardship ethic preserves their working lands while replenishing drinking water supplies, protecting water quality, and providing wildlife habitat for dozens of rare and endangered species. Tall Timbers’ conservation easements on these working properties encourage landowners to retain their traditional livelihood by keeping farms in family ownership.
Home to world-class wild quail populations, the Greater Red Hills region contains the largest concentration of gamebird preserves in the United States. These preserves also support the largest community of Red-cockaded woodpeckers on private lands. Indicators of high quality habitat found here include the gopher tortoise, Bachman’s sparrow, fox squirrel, and many amphibians. Tall Timbers’ conservation easements identify and protect the critical habitats of these species.
The region also boasts outstanding aquatic resources. Large river systems, like the Flint/Apalachicola, Ochlockonee, and Aucilla, flow from Georgia and feed into the Gulf of Mexico to support some of the world’s most productive estuaries. Large disappearing sinkhole lakes, like Iamonia, Miccosukee, and Jackson, provide habitat for an array of aquatic species and migratory birds. Tall Timbers’ conservation easements protect these vital watersheds and wetlands that are the lifeblood for the ecological health of the region.
Once dominated by longleaf pine, our pine woodlands support abundant wildlife and local economies. These forests need prescribed fire to stay healthy. Herbert L. Stoddard and his associates Ed and Roy Komarek were pioneers in this emerging scientific field during the mid-20th century. Tall Timbers continues that legacy with applied research on prescribed fire and land management. Today, there is a tremendous need to expand prescribed fire use beyond the Red Hills to ensure ecosystem health and reduce wildfire risk. Additionally, Tall Timbers uses conservation easements to permanently protect private woodlands while balancing the need for economic return from selective timbering.
Tall Timbers hosts the premier fire technology transfer organization—the Southern Fire Exchange. This JFSP funded effort helps connect research to management through webinars, workshops, and support of the Prescribed Fire Science Consortium.
The Longleaf Legacy landscape prescribed fire burn team arm of Wildland Fire Science works directly with landowners and partners to effectively put fire on the ground and promote prescribed fire throughout the region.
Staff and researchers support Federal fire training by serving as a cadre for NWCG training courses, ranging from basic wildland fire to advanced fire effects.
(PFTC) specializes in training fire fighters the principles and techniques of prescribed fire through practical hands-on experience. https://www.fws.gov/fire/pftc/
Private land owners are the largest source of prescribed fire in the country. These land owners and the culture of fire that was maintained by them during decades of suppression are a part of why Tall Timbers is a world-wide center for prescribed fire science. Workshops and fire training are a critical focus of the Longleaf Legacy Landscape Burn Team and our support of the Georgia Forestry Commission Prescribed Fire Center in Marion County.
Tall Timbers has two new membership levels, an Associate membership at $35 per year and a Youth membership at only $15 per year. The Associate membership provides a subscription to our new digital magazine the 
Tall Timbers has two new membership levels, an Associate membership at $35 per year and a Youth membership at only $15 per year. The Associate membership provides a subscription to our new digital magazine the 
