Plant Comm of FL–Registration

Registration Is Open – Plant Communities of Florida, May 19-21, 2009
Register before Friday, April 17 to receive the early registration rate.

Natural Areas Training Academy

Plant Communities of Florida

Date: May 19-21, 2009

Location: Disney Wilderness Preserve, Kissimmee and Crystal River Preserve State Park

Tuition: $380.00 (On or before April 17, 2009)
(Includes registration, materials, field trip transportation, lunches)

Lodging: See NATA lodging page for information, http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/lodging.htm

Registration: http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/

From fire to hydrology to the plants and animals that make up each community, this workshop will guide you through Florida’s natural communities with an emphasis on central Florida. This workshop will include field trips to plant community sites.

Participants learn to:

* Identify the different plant communities in Florida
* Recognize the natural forces that control these communities
* Recognize key indicator plant species for each community
* Determine management actions needed to maintain selected communities.

Please visit the Natural Areas Training Academy web site for more information and registration: http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/

Plant Communities of Florida
May 19-21, 2009
Draft Agenda
Subject to change

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 – Disney Wilderness Preserve, Kissimmee
8:30 Check-in
9:00 Introduction and Warm-up
9:15 Ecosystem Processes
10:25 Break
10:40 Overview of Florida’s Plant Communities
11:25 Central Florida Plant Communities as seen at the Disney Wilderness Preserve (DWP)
12:40 Lunch
1:30 Field trip to view first set of DWP plant communities
– pine flatwoods
– cypress dome
– baygall
– depression marsh
– wet prairie
5:00 Upon returning to classroom – Brief session on plant identification if participants have collected plants in the field. Field guides will be available for use plus participants encouraged to bring their own.
6:30 Optional dinner at local area restaurant

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 – Disney Wilderness Preserve
8:30 Second field trip to view DWP plant communities not seen on Day 1
– floodplain swamp
– oak hammock
10:00 Break
10:15 Scrub and Sandhill
11:00 Field Trip to Lake Marion scrub area and other SWFWMD properties
(includes lunch)
2:45 Return to DWP
3:00 Preview of Withlacoochee and Crystal River communities
4:00 Leave for Chinsegut. Participants will be driving their own cars
6:00 Arrive at Chinsegut Hill Conference Center
6:45 Dinner at Chinsegut Hill Conference Center

Thursday, May 21, 2009 – Brooksville Ridge/Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area/Crystal River Preserve State Park
8:00 Gather (in parking lot at Chinsegut) to leave for field activities (participants will be traveling by van, transportation is provided).
8:40 Tour Coastal and Upland Communities of the CRPSP
– hydric hammock
– basin swamp
– coastal marsh
11:00 Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area
– Sandhill
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Tour of communities at Lizzie Sink on the Brooksville Ridge
– upland mixed forest
– miscellaneous other upland communities
3:30 Arrive back at Chinsegut, Workshop Review, Evaluation and Wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn

Instructors include: Dr. Michael Andreu, University of Florida, Dr. Monica Folk, The Nature Conservancy. Host biologists may include Dave Birdsall, South Florida Water Management District, Keith Morin, Crystal River Preserve State Park.

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Linda Demetropoulos
Natural Areas Training Academy
UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology & Conservation
PO Box 110430
Gainesville, FL 32611
T: (352) 392-3210 / F: (352) 392-6984
demetrop@ufl.edu
http://nata.snre.ufl.edu

Related Files:
NATA schedule 2008-2009 (PDF 211kb)
Plant Community 2009 (PDF 328kb)