Mitigation banks can’t exactly replicate pre-development ecosystems, even when they achieve state-mandated native plant goals. (Rose Schnabel/WUFT News) Growing native plants and eradicating invasive ...
The 11 imperiled South Florida species face extinction-level threats from habitat-destroying development and sea-level rise, ...
POLK COUNTY, Florida (WUFT) — Their shoes slipping through yellow sand, Nancy Bissett and Steve Riefler followed an unpublished graduate thesis like a treasure map. They snuck through a jumble of ...
The annual Landscaping with Florida Natives Tour showcases South Brevard yards that use native plants. This year's tour includes the new Melbourne Founders Museum, which highlights local Black pioneer ...
Native plants rebuild bird menu: caterpillars for chicks, seeds for fall, berries for travel. More birds stay and sing all ...
Leafy green with tiny, red fruits, the Brazilian peppertree is a land manager’s enemy. Parts of the plant can be toxic to birds and cause rashes in humans, but that’s not why it raises concern. It’s ...
Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise discarded those options to accommodate recently approved developments and concerns over impacts to wildlife and views in Bok Tower Gardens. FDOT policy doesn’t require ...