4-H Environmental Science

Master Naturalist Program

What Makes a Plant Invasive? The Invasion Process

Christine KrebsJuly 19th, 2024This blog was written by Anelise Bullard, UF/IFAS CAIP communications intern. Let’s talk about the process through which a nonnative plant species becomes invasive. As we mentioned in our previous blog, all invasive plants start out as nonnative. These nonnative plants move through five phases of the invasion process before they are considered invasive. These […]

Weekly “What is it?”: In-Stream Trash Collection

carriestevensonMay 9th, 2024If you’ve ever peeked over the railings of a bridge spanning an urban stream, walked along the beach, or even paddled in some of our more rural rivers, you know we have a trash problem in our waterways. Northwest Florida is crisscrossed by hundreds of small—and large—water bodies that are downstream of all our cities, […]

Weekly “What is it?”: Every Kid Outdoors

carriestevensonJanuary 29th, 2024The summer after my junior year of college, I took part in a nearly 40-day road trip with the geography department at my university. We headed west from Birmingham to New Mexico, then north to Banff National Park, traveling through fourteen states and two Canadian provinces before making our way back to Alabama. Between destinations, […]