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Service fraternity plants trees On 14 Sep 2008, about 20 members of UF's Tau Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a national, co-ed service fraternity, planted 30 trees and shrubs along the fence separating NATL and the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. This filled in several large gaps in the vegetational screen shielding NATL from the Center's parking lot. |
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Volunteers plant pines and wiregrass On 14 July 2007, 25 undergraduates from the Center for Leadership and Service and six volunteer graduate-student supervisors, planted 1000 containerized longleaf pines and 700 wiregrass slips in the north block of NATL's restricted-area upland pine. |
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First Year Florida classes pick up trash On 5 November 2004, nearly 30 students, from two First Year Florida classes, worked to clear NATL of trash. These six students extracted 15 large bags of bottles, rusted cans, etc. from a shallow sinkhole that had been used as a place to dump household trash prior to NATL's founding in 1993. |
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EMA Club’s cleanup of south fence On 24 October 1998, the Environmental Management in Agriculture Club sponsored a clean up along NATL’s south boundary, where all types of litter and larger debris had accumulated for many years. Here five of the volunteers stand beside a truckload of bagged litter. |
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Docent instruction Botany professor Dana Griffin tells Florida Museum of Natural History docents some of the interesting features of NATL plants. The docents will pass on this information to groups of K-to-12 students that come to the Museum (and NATL) by the busload. |
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Squirrel watching A current project in NATL’s low-use area is Mark Spritzer’s study of the burying of food items by gray squirrels. Mark, a Zoology Department graduate student, uses this blind to keep the squirrels oblivious to his presence. |
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Pine beetle trap Dr. John Foltz, a forest entomologist, uses this pheromone-baited trap to monitor populations of southern pine beetle, a species that a few years ago killed many mature pines in Alachua County. |
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Termite project These red-painted stakes mark termite-monitoring stations maintained by USDA entomologist Weste Osbrink. |
