Executive Director's Blog Archive
May 1, 2011
Non-native predators
Pete Balfour of Ecorp tells me he has been studying Florida water snakes (a non-native…

April 21, 2011
You’re such a handsome man…
This photo (see adjacent) captures a pheasant on the Conservancy’s Silva tract preserve. The photo…

April 13, 2011
Bully of the Basin
I’ve noted on previous occasions that Great Horned Owls seem to like the Conservancy’s preserves….

April 12, 2011
Ebony and Ivory
The adjacent photo is of the first kid and its mother goat at the Conservancy’s…

February 28, 2011
Them pesky beavers
Slowly but surely, beavers are taking down David Island on the Conservancy’s Silva tract. See…

February 7, 2011
It’s all connected
The Conservancy has lost several goats this winter to disease. The expert we use on…

January 17, 2011
An opossum is not a badger
We are on the lookout for a badger on the preserves. We’ve had three reports…

January 17, 2011
Busier than a beaver
Now I know where the saying came from. The photo attached to this entry is…
November 15, 2010
Just let it be over
One of the Conservancy’s rice farmers said recently about this year’s rice crop: “Just let…