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Let’s Do the Weed Wrangle 2022Invasive Species

Let’s Do the Weed Wrangle 2022

What is the Weed Wrangle? It is a national event held every February where members of local communities visit a public area to remove invasive plants.  However, due to COVID, we are again doing it “virtually” this year.  Virtually meaning that members of the local community work in their own yards to remove invasive plants.  This year in the western Florida panhandle we are targeting the Chinese tallow, but of course Read More

2013 National Invasive Species Awareness Week (March 2-8)UF/IFAS

2013 National Invasive Species Awareness Week (March 2-8)

Invasive species are non-native or exotic species that do not naturally occur in an area and cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. These invasive species have become the number one threat to biodiversity on protected lands. However, invasive species do not know boundaries and as a result public and private lands are affected as well as natural and man-made water bodies and associated watersheds. March 2nd -March 8th is Read More