Mangrove Cuckoo at Key Largo Hammocks State Botanical Site by TAS President, Joe Barros.
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Key Largo Hammocks State Botanical Site:
Birds, Butterflies & Native Plants (last one for awhile, peeps!)
6:30am
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TAS President Joe Barros (bilingual) and Linda Evans from the Miami Blue chapter of the North American Butterfly Association will lead this trip to the largest remaining tract of coastal tropical hardwood hammock in the Florida Keys. Meet at 6:30am at the Cracker Barrel restaurant at US1 and Palm Drive in Florida City. Bring water and insect repellant. There is an entrance fee to the Botanical Site. Lunch at a Key Largo restaurant.
Butterfly Lovers: You may spot a lifer!
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Sweet Victory! Senate Bill 10 Passes, paving way for a Southern Reservoir
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Summer Storm Over the River of Grass by Paul Marcellini
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On Tuesday, May 2, both houses of the Florida legislature approved Senate Bill 10 — yippee! — which instructs state water managers to purchase and re-purpose land for the creation of a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee. When constructed, this reservoir will alleviate the need to dump, in years of high rains, phosphate-laden water into mid-state coastal estuaries, and will allow for the renewed flow of more water south to the now unnaturally parched Southern Everglades and Florida Bay. Restoring the historic flow of water southward is a crucial step toward Everglades Restoration.
TAS played a role in this significant victory. Our members and staff made calls, wrote letters, gathered petition signatures, and even visited legislators in their home offices and at the capitol. Take a moment to celebrate this sweet grassroots victory! And special thanks for helping TAS make a difference for our region's treasured Everglades.
Read more on the passage of SB10 and what the bill entails
in this article from the Miami Herald, which quotes our Audubon Florida and Everglades Foundation partners.
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SAVE THE RICHMOND PINE
ROCKLANDS
Catch up on blocking the Coral Reef Commons!
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Florida Trail Assoc. Meeting @ TAS Thursday, May 9, 7pm
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The Miami FTA Chapter will show its support of TAS this month by welcoming our Development Director Susan Shapiro as its guest speaker. She speak on the TAS Mission, Everglades Restoration, Pine Rocklands Preservation and how to help support these critically important efforts.
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Volunteer: Eco-Restoration Day
@ TAS's Porter Russell Pine Rockland
Saturday, May 13, 8:30-11am
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Help TAS steward our
Porter
Russell
Pine
Rockland, an 8-acre property in South Miami-Dade County, one of the few remaining tracts of globally imperiled
Pine
Rockland habitat remaining outside of Everglades National Park.
Please bring sunscreen, your water bottle, and wear closed toed-shoes. We will provide water.
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Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition Meeting @ TAS
Thursday, May 18, 7-9
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Get updated on the latest developments surrounding Walmart/Coral Reef Commons Development plans to bulldoze and pave over imperiled habitat at the former University of Miami South Campus.
Learn about plans to Save the Pine Rocklands, and how you can participate by helping ramp-up "Save it, Don't Pave it" efforts all the way to Washington D.C.
https://www.facebook.com/events/906872479455425/
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Eco-Restoration Day @ TAS's Steinberg Nature Center
Saturday, May, 20 8:30-11:30am
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Learn about indigenous plants and help us maintain our near-native landscape at the
Steinberg
Nature
Center on the TAS campus. We need you!
Restoration Days are held on the 3rd Saturday of every month. We're flexible -- show up between
8:30 and 11:30am -- you will meet
conservationists, birders, plant lovers and gardeners just like you lending a hand.
Volunteer to Get Your Hands Dirty! (We provide gloves!). Groups welcome.
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May Movie & Music Nite @ TAS Friday, May 26 Gates open at 7pm
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On the Marquee:
• Live Music by rising star Alt-Country songbird Edan Archer, 7:15 • "A Brief History of South Miami" documentary short rolls at dusk followed by Environmental feature film (TBA stay tuned!) • Latin Fixins Food Truck & donation Bird Bar
May Movie & Music Nite is a Community Event presented by
Tropical Audubon Society together with the City of South Miami
Admission by Donation
Limited on-site parking via the 55th Avenue entry gate; metered parking on Sunset Drive; various garage and valet parking options within 1-3 blocks; Metro-rail service to South Miami Station.
MMMN Community Partners:
Audubon Florida, City of South Miami, Community Newspapers, Edan Archer, INYBN.com, Miami Brewing Co., Republic National Distributing Co.
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Slow Food Miami for helping underwrite our March BEE-cause Flea, and for helping seed our soon-to-be-replanted native pollinator garden. Together with copresenter Whole Foods Market,
Slow
Food Miami's support of the BEE-cause Flea made this inaugural event wildly successful.
“
Slow
Food” is an idea, a way of living, a way of eating and a nonprofit, member-supported organization. It is part of a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members in more than 150 countries, which links the pleasure of
food with a commitment to community and the environment. To learn more about
Slow
FoodMiami, visit
http://slowfoodmiami.org/#
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