Really great field trip coming up this Saturday!

Hi everyone!

I have been meaning to post a journal entry here with some useful resources for anyone interested in the City Nature Challenge and will get to that soon... In the meantime, I realized I should share this ASAP as it's a fantastic opportunity to get out into Everglades National Park with some fellow nature lovers this Saturday!

The trip is completely free and open to the public!

It's a guided hike through Long Pine Key to Osteen Hammock. Entrance to Everglades National Park is normally a minimum of $30 (7-day pass is the cheaper option and the year pass for $55 is the more expensive, but probably cheaper-in-the-long-run-option) BUT this trip happens to fall on a "Free Entrance" day, so make sure to take advantage of that!

This trip will mainly focus on the plants in the area but Lydia, the botanist leading the field trip, also has a keen eye for insects, including native butterflies and bees that we will see out there! Check out Lydia's iNaturalist profile here: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/lydiamc & her Instagram here: @lydia.cuna

You can read more about the field trip (9AM-12PM), including meeting place and other details here:
https://teamup.com/event/show/id/7BruNscug6wcoApNcAGGLUuGbC6RNx

Here is a link to the organization that set the field trip up, the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society:
https://dade.fnpschapters.org/

Hope to see some of you out there!
-Joe MDO

Posted on April 13, 2022 11:53 PM by joemdo