in Titusville

Help restore oyster beds in the Indian River Lagoon by making oyster mats.

Call for more information, 321.264.5185.

A trained guide leads a one hour hike through the trails of the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary and talks about native plants, habitats, historical and cultural points of interest.

Hike begins at 10:00 a.m.
Please dress for dirt trails and bring water.

The needs of the hearing or visually impaired persons shall be met if the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary Management & Education Center is contacted at least 48 hours prior to the event by any person wishing assistance.

Help the 'Deadheaders' tend the gardens
and learn about native plants,
pollinators and butterflies.

Schedule varies.

Please Call for Times & Upcoming Dates: 321.264.5185

A trained guide leads a one hour hike through the trails of the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary and talks about native plants, habitats, historical and cultural points of interest.

Hike begins at 10:00 a.m.
Please dress for dirt trails and bring water.

The needs of the hearing or visually impaired persons shall be met if the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary Management & Education Center is contacted at least 48 hours prior to the event by any person wishing assistance.

* * * NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING * * *

A Site Visit to a possible Mitigation Donation Site in Cocoa is scheduled for the Environmentally Endangered Lands Program Selection and Management Committee.

Meet at the parking Lot of Jabbers Restaurant,
4365 Grissom Parkway Cocoa, Florida, 32926

The purpose of this site visit is to evaluate the ecological resource values of lands under consideration for public acquisition and management by the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program.

Any questions regarding this meeting should be directed to Jenny Ashbury, EEL Program at 321.255.4466 or jenny.ashbury@brevardparks.com

If a person desires to appeal any decision made by this board, agency or commission, as appropriate with respect to any matter considered at this meeting or hearing, such a person will need a record of this proceeding and that, for such purposes, such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of this proceeding is made, at his/her own expense, which record includes testimony and evidence upon which any such appeal is to be based.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, F.S., persons needing accommodations or any interpreter to participate in the proceeding should contact Laura Clark, Administrative Secretary for the Parks and Recreation Environmentally Endangered Lands Program, no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting at 255.4466.

A trained guide leads a one hour hike through the trails of the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary and talks about native plants, habitats, historical and cultural points of interest.

Hike begins at 10:00 a.m.
Please dress for dirt trails and bring water.

The needs of the hearing or visually impaired persons shall be met if the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary Management & Education Center is contacted at least 48 hours prior to the event by any person wishing assistance.

Volunteer organization that helps the Enchanted Forest with programs, activities and volunteers.

Meets monthly, third Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Please join us! For information call: 321.264.5185

A trained guide leads a one hour hike through the trails of the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary and talks about native plants, habitats, historical and cultural points of interest.

Hike begins at 10:00 a.m.
Please dress for dirt trails and bring water.

The needs of the hearing or visually impaired persons shall be met if the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary Management & Education Center is contacted at least 48 hours prior to the event by any person wishing assistance.

at the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary in Titusville

Third Sunday monthly, begins at 2:00 p.m.
A different activity each month.

For more information, call: 321.264.5185

A trained guide leads a one hour hike through the trails of the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary and talks about native plants, habitats, historical and cultural points of interest.

Hike begins at 10:00 a.m.
Please dress for dirt trails and bring water.

The needs of the hearing or visually impaired persons shall be met if the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary Management & Education Center is contacted at least 48 hours prior to the event by any person wishing assistance.

Second annual Research Rules!
A science fair conference for students in grades 58, their parents, and teachers

Get science fair tips from the experts! Over onethird of participants last year went on to win at the science fair!

Saturday, September 13
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) and BCC/UCF Cocoa Campus

and

Saturday, September 20
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne.

Register on-line at: www.spacecoastscience.org/sciencefair

Directions to FSEC and BCC/UCF Cocoa Campus: The Florida Solar Energy Center and Brevard Community College are located at 1679 Clearlake Road. From Interstate 95, take the 524 exit and head east. FSEC is located at the corner of Clearlake Road and Michigan Avenue. It is a bright blue building with red and yellow trim. Park in either the FSEC or BCC parking lot. From US 1, turn on Michigan Avenue, just south of the Beachline. Turn left at the first traffic light (Clearlake Road). FSEC is on the right side of the road.

Directions to FIT: Florida Institute of Technology is located at 150 W. University Blvd. in Melbourne. From Interstate 95, take exit 176/Palm Bay and head east on Palm Bay Road. Turn left onto Babcock Street. Turn left onto University Blvd. Park in the parking lot on either side of the road and proceed to Gleason Auditorium. From US 1, turn onto University Blvd, just south of Highway 192. Cross Babcock Street into the campus.

Adult Master Naturalist Classes
Offered by University of Florida IFAS

Learn valuable information about Floridas natural history

• For ecotour operators, teachers, nature guides, environmental professionals or nature enthusiasts
• Classes are 40 contact hours
• Approimnately 16 hours of field trips
• 3 ecosystem learning modules offered periodically
  
• Freshwater Wetlands: lakes, rivers, marshes, swamps
• Coastal Systems: marine, estuarine, dunes, reefs, salt marshes, mangrove swamps
• Upland habitat: prairie, scrub, forests, rangeland, urban green space

Brevard County Schedule For
Upland Habitat Module
See Full Schedule...
Sundays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Class 7: 8am2pm)
October 19December 7, 2008
Registration closes October 9, 2008
Module is 225
Registration online at: www.MasterNaturalist.org
(Course Code: uh814)

Learn about Floridas, plant life, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, birds, invertebrates (butterflies, mollusks, beetles, crustaceans, etc.), ecology, environmental ethics, and nature interpretation skills.

• Participants receive 1100 page workbooks full of great reference materials
• Videos may be purchased for future classroom programs
• Teachers inservice credits offered
  
• Professionals CEUs offered

Primary Site
Riverwalk Nature Center
at RiverwalkA Family Park
5355 US Highway 1, Rockledge, FL 32955
Phone: 3214334490

Day 5 Site
Enchanted Forest Sanctuary
444 Columbia Boulevard, Titusville, FL  32780
Phone: 3212645185

Instructor
Brandon Smith, Environmental Program Coordinator
Assistant Instructors
Edward Leonard, Sea Grant Agent, Brevard County Cooperative Extension;
Katrina Morrell, Education Coordinator, Environmentally Endangered Lands Program

Information
Brandon Smith
Phone: 3214334490
Fax: 3214334492
Email: riverwalk@brevardparks.com

*IFAS:University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

Adult Master Naturalist Classes
Offered by University of Florida IFAS

Learn valuable information about Floridas natural history

• For ecotour operators, teachers, nature guides, environmental professionals or nature enthusiasts
• Classes are 40 contact hours
• Approimnately 16 hours of field trips
• 3 ecosystem learning modules offered periodically
  
• Freshwater Wetlands: lakes, rivers, marshes, swamps
• Coastal Systems: marine, estuarine, dunes, reefs, salt marshes, mangrove swamps
• Upland habitat: prairie, scrub, forests, rangeland, urban green space

Brevard County Schedule For
Upland Habitat Module
See Full Schedule...
Sundays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Class 7: 8am2pm)
October 19December 7, 2008
Registration closes October 9, 2008
Module is 225
Registration online at: www.MasterNaturalist.org
(Course Code: uh814)

Learn about Floridas, plant life, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, birds, invertebrates (butterflies, mollusks, beetles, crustaceans, etc.), ecology, environmental ethics, and nature interpretation skills.

• Participants receive 1100 page workbooks full of great reference materials
• Videos may be purchased for future classroom programs
• Teachers inservice credits offered
  
• Professionals CEUs offered

Primary Site
Riverwalk Nature Center
at RiverwalkA Family Park
5355 US Highway 1, Rockledge, FL 32955
Phone: 3214334490

Day 5 Site
Enchanted Forest Sanctuary
444 Columbia Boulevard, Titusville, FL  32780
Phone: 3212645185

Instructor
Brandon Smith, Environmental Program Coordinator
Assistant Instructors
Edward Leonard, Sea Grant Agent, Brevard County Cooperative Extension;
Katrina Morrell, Education Coordinator, Environmentally Endangered Lands Program

Information
Brandon Smith
Phone: 3214334490
Fax: 3214334492
Email: riverwalk@brevardparks.com

*IFAS:University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

Learn About Prescribed Fire on EEL Program Lands

Environmentally Endangered Lands Program Lands recently treated with prescribed fire, acted as a barrier to the May 2008 wildfires in South Brevard.

Click for Details

Second annual Research Rules!
A science fair conference for students in grades 58, their parents, and teachers

Get science fair tips from the experts! Over onethird of participants last year went on to win at the science fair!

Saturday, September 13
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) and BCC/UCF Cocoa Campus

and

Saturday, September 20
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne.

Register on-line at: www.spacecoastscience.org/sciencefair

Directions to FSEC and BCC/UCF Cocoa Campus: The Florida Solar Energy Center and Brevard Community College are located at 1679 Clearlake Road. From Interstate 95, take the 524 exit and head east. FSEC is located at the corner of Clearlake Road and Michigan Avenue. It is a bright blue building with red and yellow trim. Park in either the FSEC or BCC parking lot. From US 1, turn on Michigan Avenue, just south of the Beachline. Turn left at the first traffic light (Clearlake Road). FSEC is on the right side of the road.

Directions to FIT: Florida Institute of Technology is located at 150 W. University Blvd. in Melbourne. From Interstate 95, take exit 176/Palm Bay and head east on Palm Bay Road. Turn left onto Babcock Street. Turn left onto University Blvd. Park in the parking lot on either side of the road and proceed to Gleason Auditorium. From US 1, turn onto University Blvd, just south of Highway 192. Cross Babcock Street into the campus.

Join Michelle Peters Snyder of The Nature Conservancy and make oyster mats to help restore Indian River Lagoon oyster reefs.

Young oysters settle and grow upon beds of older oyster shells, and your work will help restore damaged areas of the lagoon.

Workshop sessions will be held once monthly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: 9/12, 10/23, 11/14 and 12/5.

Join Michelle Peters Snyder of The Nature Conservancy and make oyster mats to help restore Indian River Lagoon oyster reefs.

Young oysters settle and grow upon beds of older oyster shells, and your work will help restore damaged areas of the lagoon.

Workshop sessions will be held once monthly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: 9/12, 10/23, 11/14 and 12/5.

Join Michelle Peters Snyder of The Nature Conservancy and make oyster mats to help restore Indian River Lagoon oyster reefs.

Young oysters settle and grow upon beds of older oyster shells, and your work will help restore damaged areas of the lagoon.

Workshop sessions will be held once monthly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: 9/12, 10/23, 11/14 and 12/5.

Join Michelle Peters Snyder of The Nature Conservancy and make oyster mats to help restore Indian River Lagoon oyster reefs.

Young oysters settle and grow upon beds of older oyster shells, and your work will help restore damaged areas of the lagoon.

Workshop sessions will be held once monthly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: 9/12, 10/23, 11/14 and 12/5.

Join Michelle Peters Snyder of The Nature Conservancy and make oyster mats to help restore Indian River Lagoon oyster reefs.

Young oysters settle and grow upon beds of older oyster shells, and your work will help restore damaged areas of the lagoon.

Workshop sessions will be held once monthly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: 9/12, 10/23, 11/14 and 12/5.

Join Michelle Peters Snyder of The Nature Conservancy and make oyster mats to help restore Indian River Lagoon oyster reefs.

Young oysters settle and grow upon beds of older oyster shells, and your work will help restore damaged areas of the lagoon.

Workshop sessions will be held once monthly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: 9/12, 10/23, 11/14 and 12/5.

Join Michelle Peters Snyder of The Nature Conservancy and make oyster mats to help restore Indian River Lagoon oyster reefs.

Young oysters settle and grow upon beds of older oyster shells, and your work will help restore damaged areas of the lagoon.

Workshop sessions will be held once monthly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: 9/12, 10/23, 11/14 and 12/5.

Join Michelle Peters Snyder of The Nature Conservancy and make oyster mats to help restore Indian River Lagoon oyster reefs.

Young oysters settle and grow upon beds of older oyster shells, and your work will help restore damaged areas of the lagoon.

Workshop sessions will be held once monthly from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: 9/12, 10/23, 11/14 and 12/5.

* * * NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING * * *

A Site Visit to a possible Mitigation Donation Site in Cocoa is scheduled for the Environmentally Endangered Lands Program Selection and Management Committee.

Meet at the parking Lot of Jabbers Restaurant,
4365 Grissom Parkway Cocoa, Florida, 32926

The purpose of this site visit is to evaluate the ecological resource values of lands under consideration for public acquisition and management by the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program.

Any questions regarding this meeting should be directed to Jenny Ashbury, EEL Program at 321.255.4466 or jenny.ashbury@brevardparks.com

If a person desires to appeal any decision made by this board, agency or commission, as appropriate with respect to any matter considered at this meeting or hearing, such a person will need a record of this proceeding and that, for such purposes, such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of this proceeding is made, at his/her own expense, which record includes testimony and evidence upon which any such appeal is to be based.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, F.S., persons needing accommodations or any interpreter to participate in the proceeding should contact Laura Clark, Administrative Secretary for the Parks and Recreation Environmentally Endangered Lands Program, no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting at 255.4466.

* * * NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING * * *

A meeting of the Environmentally Endangered Lands Program Selection and Management Committee, established by the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners.

The purpose of this meeting is to review lands under consideration for public acquisition and management by the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program.

Any questions regarding this meeting should be directed to Laura Clark 321.255.4466 or Laura.Clark@brevardparks.com.

If a person desires to appeal any decision made by this board, agency or commission, as appropriate with respect to any matter considered at this meeting or hearing, such a person will need a record of this proceeding and that, for such purposes, such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of this proceeding is made, at his/her own expense, which record includes testimony and evidence upon which any such appeal is to be based.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, F.S., persons needing accommodations or any interpreter to participate in the proceeding should contact Laura Clark, EEL Program Administrative Secretary, no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting, at 255.4466.