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| The rare Shaus Swallowtail Butterfly seen during this trip last year |
Key Largo Hammocks State Botanical Site: Birds, Butterflies and Native Plants
Saturday, May 07; 6:30am- after lunch ;-)
TAS President Joe Barros
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 US 1 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.
(our last field trip until October!)
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The Birds Thank Whole Foods Market Coral Gables
The Birds Thank Whole Foods Market Coral Gables,
America's healthiest (and greenest!) grocery store chain. Whether supporting Homestead farmers, Keys Fishermen or Florida Ranchers, Wh
ole Foods Market Coral Gables keeps it local.
Our "Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet" near neighbor (located 3 blocks north of our campus on Red Road) recently partnered with TAS to present "WingDing" 2016, providing a farm-fresh, fair food picnic for 150 guests. WingDing proceeds help TAS maintain our 3-acre urban oasis, aka"green island," and perpetuate our Mission "
To conserve and restore South Florida ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats."
Supporting those vendors who support TAS is an easy way to contribute to our Mission.
The birds will thank you!
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Take Action Today:
Protect the Biscayne Bay Marine Reserve
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Biscayne Bay Marine Reserve
Sign on to a Letter Opposing Senate bill 2.807
Deadline:
5pm May 5, 2016
TAS has signed onto this letter addressed to the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Cantwell, and we hope you will, too.
If you love fishing, or have a commercial interest in keeping fishing sound, help oppose Senate Bill S.2807 as this bill would block the creation of a marine reserve in
Biscayne National Park, which is in direct conflict with the National Park Service's (NPS) mission to protect our coastal and marine resources and provide for fishing opportunities in and around national parks, especially South Florida's Biscayne National Park.
Fish populations in and around Biscayne National Park waters have dramatically declined threatening the health of the entire coral reef ecosystem.
By stopping S.2807, we allow the NPS to uphold its responsibility to current and future generations to protect our fisheries, one of America's most treasured natural resources.
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Magical Mother's Day
@ TAS
Sunday, May 08, dawn-dusk
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Tropical Audubon Patron Arden Hayes "Doc" Thomas on the porch with his Mom
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Do something truly meaningful for your mom:
Make a date with Mom & Mother Nature. Visit our urban oasis together. Go off the grid and give mom more of yourself. Bring brunch or assemble a late afternoon cocktail spread (the birds are most active early and late in the day). Stroll our Pine Rockland and Hardwood Hammock habitats. Talk and catch up under the Audubon oaks, and picnic in the shade as the birds flutter by. Assure Mother's Day resonates year-long with a membership gift to TAS.
Sunset Drive and 56th Avenue pedestrian gates open from dawn until dusk.
Gift Mom a Membership to TAS!
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Big Cypress Chapter Meeting
@ TAS
Tuesday, May 10, 7:30-9pm
"6,000-Miles and Counting".
Everglades evangelist and modern-day nomad Cesar Becerra
reflects on 30 years of adventuring, beginning with the story of his first canoe trip at age ten and touching on all of his glades journeys. including a 50-state road trip, hiking through the Appalachian Trail and his walk across America.
Cesar will debut a small clip from his upcoming Appalachian Trail full-length documentary.
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Eco-Restoration Day
@ TAS's
Porter Russell Pine Rockland
Saturday, May 14, 8:30am-noon
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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Team FootWorks
The Best 5K Race in South Miami
Sunday, May 15, 7pm
Please Visit our booth!
The Best 5K Race in South Miami!
The South Miami Hospital Twilight 5K is a race and block party rolled into one. The course winds through the quiet South Miami neighborhood adjacent to FootWorks, then ends near Town Kitchen & Bar at a block party with music, food, beer (for 21 and older), kids zone, kiddie dash, and souvenir shirts in all sizes to fit the kids, mom, and even dad.
Visit the Twilight Run's Page to Register
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Eco-Restoration Day
@ TAS's Steinberg Nature Center
Saturday, May 21, 8:30am-noon
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 when you can, between 8:30 am and noon -- you will find a host of conservationists, birders, plant lovers and gardeners just like you lending a hand.
Volunteer to Get Your Hands Dirty! (We provide gloves!)
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Friends of the Everglades Annual Meeting
Sunday, May 22, 1-3pm
South Floridians are invited to attend Friends of the Everglades 47th Annual Meeting at our South Miami urban oasis, comprised of the historic Doc Thomas House and Steinberg Nature Center. Featured speaker Laura Reynolds, former Director of Tropical Audubon Society and now a conservation consultant representing the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, will speak about the issues surrounding the alleged contamination of Biscayne Bay from the FPL Turkey Point nuclear power plant. Please join us in support of FOE's efforts to protect the Everglades and surrounding natural places. (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.)
onsite free parking via SW 55th Avenue entry gate
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Miami
Pine Rockland Coalition Annual Meeting @ TAS
Thursday, May 26, 7-8:30pm
Join Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition for it
s annual election meeting and the latest updates on its goal of saving the last 2% of Miami's threatened Pine Rocklands from developers' bulldozers. Details of MPRC's latest formal application to place some 40 acres of critical habitat and buffer lands into Miami Dade's Environmentally Endangered Lands program for Preservation and Restoration will be shared, along with information on how to urge local lawmakers to help save our region's last vestige of globally imperiled Pine Rocklands.
#saveitdontpaveit
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May Movie & Music Nite @ TAS
The Unseen Everglades -- Inside a Legendary Wilderness
Music by Lucid Room
Friday, May 27, 7:30pm
Gates open at 7pm, movie rolls at dusk
See this compelling, Emmy-award-winning, 56-minute documentary under the Audubon oaks and stars. Within the "The Unseen Everglades" frames you'll discover the rich history of the Florida Everglades; explore its unique habitats; and meet both its wildlife and human residents.
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The Unseen Everglades-- Inside a Legendary Wilderness
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Flowing southward for hundreds of miles from headwaters near Kissimmee to the Florida Bay, the Sunshine State's unique "River of Grass" is one of the world's most precious natural resources. The fast-moving film, hosted by author/adventurer Charles J. Kropke, examines the complex family of ecosystems that comprise this national treasure, the flora and fauna that inhabit it, and the spirited fight to restore, preserve and protect it.
Viewers will come away with a better understanding of the Everglades's scope and the critical role the
world's largest contiguous freshwater marsh
plays on the Blue Planet.
Also on the Marquee:
Live Music by Lucid Room, Vibe305 Food
Truck & donation BirdBar
Gates open at
7pm
Lucid Room plays Set #1
1-hour film rolls at dusk under the Audubon oaks & stars
Lucid Room plays Set #2
May Movie Nite is a FREE community event -- invite your peeps!
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.
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Keep South Florida's Voice of Conservation Clear & Strong
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