Join us in keeping this beautiful ecosystem healthy! Saturday, November 2, 2024 starting at 9:00 AM.

Gloves, trash bags, and other supplies provided.

Water provided, but please bring your own reusable water bottle

Kayakers and canoeists are welcome and needed!

Click to sign up via Mobilize, so we can make sure we have enough supplies. You will receive automatic reminders and updates for the event.

Parking at the main entrance off of Lake Bradford Rd is limited. Additional parking is available on FAMU Way, close to Stearns St. There's also a 20-spot parking lot off of the roundabout at FAMU Way and Robert and Trudie Perkins Way (just west of Stearns St.). It’s about a 3 minute walk from the parking lot to the Stearns St. entrance of the park.

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Join us for our bi-monthly litter clean-up for the AAS adopted street—Sharer Road!

We will meet up at 9 AM on Saturday, October 19 in the parking lot behind the City Beauty Supply—2806 Sharer Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312. Park near the building and we will organize and deploy from there.

We will supply bright green safety vests, gloves, trash bags, and trash pick-up tools.

Started in 1992, Keep Tallahassee Beautiful is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to keeping our community litter-free and educated about recycling, solid waste and beautification of our environment.

Read more about Adopt-a-Street and Keep Tallahassee Beautiful.

At 9:00 AM meet at the Ochlockonee Bay Boat Ramp which is just past the Ochlockonee Bay Bridge, and on the right as you are heading south on Highway 98.

There is a portable potty on site.

We will work the shore and into the woods to collect trash which we will haul back to the boat ramp in a canoe. This property, known as the Bluffs of Saint Teresa, was recently purchased by the State of Florida and is a truly beautiful area in which to work. Pack a lunch and join us for a picnic along this gorgeous seashore when our work is done! We’ll have supplies on hand for hand-washing before lunch.

Please call or text Donna Legare at 850 386-1148 if you plan to volunteer so we can collect the proper number of supplies. Wear or bring sunscreen, bug spray, protective clothing (hats, long pants, long-sleeved shirts), work or close-toed water shoes, water bottle. You can bring your own work gloves, but plastic and cloth gloves will be provided.

Join us for our bi-monthly litter clean-up for the AAS adopted street—Sharer Road!

We will meet up at 8:30 AM on Saturday, August 24 in the parking lot behind the City Beauty Supply—2806 Sharer Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312. Park near the building and we will organize and deploy from there.

We will supply bright green safety vests, gloves, trash bags, and trash pick-up tools.

Started in 1992, Keep Tallahassee Beautiful is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to keeping our community litter-free and educated about recycling, solid waste and beautification of our environment.

Read more about Adopt-a-Street and Keep Tallahassee Beautiful.

Join us in keeping this beautiful ecosystem healthy! Saturday, August 3, 2024 starting at 8:30 AM.

Gloves, trash bags, and other supplies provided.

Water provided, but please bring your own reusable water bottle

Kayakers and canoeists are welcome and needed!

Click to sign up via Mobilize, so we can make sure we have enough supplies. You will receive automatic reminders and updates for the event.

Parking at the main entrance off of Lake Bradford Rd is limited. Additional parking is available on FAMU Way, close to Stearns St. There's also a 20-spot parking lot off of the roundabout at FAMU Way and Robert and Trudie Perkins Way (just west of Stearns St.). It’s about a 3 minute walk from the parking lot to the Stearns St. entrance of the park.

A presentation on birding basics by AAS’s Juli deGrummond at the Leroy Collins Main Library, Leon County Public Library. For more information, call 850-606-2665.

Located on two migratory pathways, Florida is one of the top birding locations in the country. The Tallahassee-Leon County area has a diverse array of habitats that make it a fabulous place to go birding.

This program will include an overview of what birding is, the tools needed, some of the benefits of birding, and tips and suggestions for the beginner birder.

A presentation on birding basics by AAS’s Juli deGrummond at the Lake Jackson Branch of the Leon County Public Library. For more information, call 850-606-2850.

Located on two migratory pathways, Florida is one of the top birding locations in the country. The Tallahassee-Leon County area has a diverse array of habitats that make it a fabulous place to go birding.

This program will include an overview of what birding is, the tools needed, some of the benefits of birding, and tips and suggestions for the beginner birder.

Join us for our bi-monthly litter clean-up for the AAS adopted street—Sharer Road!

Click to sign up via Mobilize.

We will meet up at 9 AM on Saturday, June 15 in the parking lot behind the City Beauty Supply—2806 Sharer Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312. Park near the building and we will organize and deploy from there.

We will supply bright green safety vests, gloves, trash bags, and trash pick-up tools.

Started in 1992, Keep Tallahassee Beautiful is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to keeping our community litter-free and educated about recycling, solid waste and beautification of our environment.

Read more about Adopt-a-Street and Keep Tallahassee Beautiful.

Join us in keeping this beautiful ecosystem healthy!

Saturday, April 13, 2024 starting at 9:00 AM

Additional parking is available on FAMU Way, close to Stearns St. There's also a 20-spot parking lot off of the roundabout at FAMU Way and Robert and Trudie Perkins Way (just west of Stearns St.). It’s about a 3 minute walk from the parking lot to the Stearns St. entrance of the park.

Kayakers and canoeists are welcome and needed!

Gloves, trash bags, and other supplies provided.

Water provided, but please bring your own reusable water bottle

Ecological Landscaping: Gardening for Wildlife Field Trip and Native Plant Tour

Cost—$15: All funds support Birdsong Nature Center’s Butterfly/Pollinator Garden

Click to learn more about this event.

Join us for our litter clean-up for our newly adopted street—Sharer Road!

We will meet up at 9 AM on Sunday, March 17 in the parking lot near the City Beauty Supply—2806 Sharer Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312. Park near the building and we will organize and deploy from there.

We will supply bright green safety vests, gloves, trash bags, and trash pick-up tools.

Started in 1992, Keep Tallahassee Beautiful is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to keeping our community litter-free and educated about recycling, solid waste and beautification of our environment.

Read more about Adopt-a-Street and Keep Tallahassee Beautiful.

Join us in keeping this beautiful ecosystem healthy!

Saturday, February 3, 2024 starting at 9:00 AM

Additional parking is available on FAMU Way, close to Stearns St. There's also a 20-spot parking lot off of the roundabout at FAMU Way and Robert and Trudie Perkins Way (just west of Stearns St.). It’s about a 3 minute walk from the parking lot to the Stearns St. entrance of the park.

Kayakers and canoeists are welcome and needed!

Gloves, trash bags, and other supplies provided.

Water provided, but please bring your own reusable water bottle

Join us for our litter clean-up for our newly adopted street—Sharer Road!

We will meet up at 9 AM on Sunday, January 21 in the parking lot near the City Beauty Supply—2806 Sharer Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312. Park near the building and we will organize and deploy from there.

We will supply bright green safety vests, gloves, trash bags, and trash pick-up tools.

Started in 1992, Keep Tallahassee Beautiful is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to keeping our community litter-free and educated about recycling, solid waste and beautification of our environment.

Read more about Adopt-a-Street and Keep Tallahassee Beautiful.

You are invited to come out and socialize with fellow Tallahassee nature lovers! This winter social is co-hosted by the Sierra Club Big Bend Group and Apalachee Audubon Society. We will meet Thursday, December 7, starting at 6:00 PM at Waterworks Tiki Bar & Restaurant, serving Tallahassee for over 28 years.

Light hors d’oeuvres will be provided, but you can also buy a sandwich from the menu. Beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase as well.

No need to RSVP, just show up!

Banner Photo: Waterworks owner Don Quarello (far right) and friends.

Join us for our first litter clean-up for our newly adopted street—Sharer Road!

We will meet up at 9 AM on Sunday, November 19 in the parking lot near the Chuck E Cheese 2810 Sharer Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 and organize and deploy from there.

Started in 1992, Keep Tallahassee Beautiful is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to keeping our community litter-free and educated about recycling, solid waste and beautification of our environment.

Read more about Adopt-a-Street and Keep Tallahassee Beautiful.

Arrive at 6:30 pm to mingle and grab a beverage and bite to eat.

Marina Mertz, with the Panhandle Wildflower Alliance Liaison, will be presenting on the importance of creating habitat within our urban spaces utilizing native plantings.

Marina joined the Florida Wildflower Foundation in 2022 as the Panhandle Wildflower Alliance Liaison. There, she works with local advocates, alliance members, and various governmental entities to create and nurture wildflower corridors on roadsides, utility easements, public gardens, and schools.

Join us, grab a beverage and some food, and listen to Mertz’s colorful talk on native wildflowers

Banner photo: Purple Coneflowers, by Kathleen Carr

Join us in keeping this beautiful ecosystem healthy!

Saturday, November 4 starting at 9:00 AM

Additional parking is available on FAMU Way, close to Stearns St. There's also a 20-spot parking lot off of the roundabout at FAMU Way and Robert and Trudie Perkins Way (just west of Stearns St.). It’s about a 3 minute walk from the parking lot to the Stearns St. entrance of the park.

Kayakers and canoeists are welcome and needed!

Gloves, trash bags, and other supplies provided.

Water provided, but please bring your own reusable water bottle

At 9:00 AM meet at Ochlockonee Bay Boat Ramp which is just past the Ochlockonee Bay Bridge, and on the right as you are heading south on Highway 98.

There is a portable potty on site.

We will work the shore and into the woods to collect trash which we will haul back to the boat ramp in a canoe. This property, known as the Bluffs of Saint Teresa, was recently purchased by the State of Florida and is a truly beautiful area in which to work.

Please call Norma Skaggs at ‭(850) 508-1457‬ if you plan to volunteer so we can collect the proper number of supplies. Wear or bring sunscreen, bug spray, protective clothing (hats, long pants, long-sleeved shirts), work or close-toed water shoes, water bottle. You can bring your own work gloves, but plastic and cloth gloves will be provided.

Lake Munson photo by Nick Evans.

Social begins at 6:30 PM. Arrive early and order a beverage or scrumptious sandwich.

Join the Big Bend Sierra Club for their April 18 program, a presentation on the Ecology of Lake Munson by Dr. Seán McGlynn. The program is hosted at Waterworks located at 1133 Thomasville Rd. Arrive at 6:30pm to enjoy a bite and a beverage; program starts at 7:00pm.

Lake Munson was once the dirtiest lake in Florida, now it is seventh dirtiest in a state that leads the nation in having the most polluted lakes. Lake Munson is not just a lake, it is the most endangered type of lake in the US, a karst or sinking lake, that fills with stormwater runoff from Tallahassee Red Hills. This polluted water replenishes the Floridan Aquifer and feeds Wakulla Springs, where the aquifer water flows out of the ground. My talk will detail the story of Lake Munson, one of the foulest spots in the Wakulla Springshed, its future and what must be done to protect the Red Hills, the Floridan Aquifer and Wakulla Springs forever.

Dr. McGlynn is currently on the Board of Directors of the Florida Lake Management Society and the Florida Springs Council, and on the Florida Water Resources Monitoring Council. He is a past President of the Big Bend Sierra Club, Friends of Wakulla Springs, Wakulla Springs Alliance and Apalachee Audubon Society. And is currently the Technical Director for McGlynn Laboratories Inc.

Dr. McGlynn earned a Bachelor of Science degree from LSU and a Doctorate at FSU. His dissertation was on biological cycling of petroleum hydrocarbons, their metabolism by aquatic plants and their fate in the food chain, in Lake Jackson a karst lake and the only freshwater lake designated an Aquatic Preserve in Florida. He became interested in the unique karst hydrology of the region and the interaction of the karst lakes with the largest and deepest spring vent spring in Florida, Wakulla Springs, only to discover that the karst system was intimately linked to the coast at Spring Creek and other Marine Springs. Now he is documenting the changes in this intricately complex karst system as it gets developed and suffers hydrological stresses from climate change and rising sea levels.

This program will explore ways to conserve the Aucilla River Watershed. Peter Kleinhenz is the Aucilla River Watershed Coalition Coordinator at Tall Timbers Land Conservancy.

When he's not involved with Audubon, Peter works as a Conservation Coordinator for Tall Timbers after several years as an interpretive writer for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Although his background is in herpetology, he is a birding convert. His current U.S. bird species tally sits at 580, and he has birded internationally in ten other

Rebecca Means will talk about wetlands, amphibians, and how to get involved in the conservation work CPI is doing. The mission of the institute is to preserve the biodiversity of the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States in three ways:

1. Conducting biological research to generate new knowledge about Southeastern ecosystems, with emphasis on the longleaf pine ecosystem and its embedded temporary wetlands.

2. Provide environmental education opportunities to the general public through field trips, classroom visits, festivals, lectures, website, and social media.

3. Acquire lands and directly manage or restore them back to native, natural habitat.

A Sentinel Landscape is an area designated by the U.S. Departments of Defense, Agriculture, and Interior. Sentinel landscapes provide focus areas where these agencies work together with other public agencies and private partners. The partnership strives to maintain compatible land uses that conserve listed species habitat and minimize encroachment threats and constraints to military missions. Northwest Florida was designated a Sentinel Landscape on February 15, 2022. 

Kent Wimmer, Senior Representative and Coordinator for the Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape, will give a presentation on this recent designation. It’s purpose is to create a regional partnership platform for the NWFSL, increase recognition of Sentinel Landscapes within Florida, and enhance coordination and problem-solving ability among stakeholders and partners (including landowners, military, state natural resource and agricultural agencies, funding agencies and entities, and NGOs). This will address resiliency and sustainability challenges to military installations, working lands and wildlife.

CYNTHIA BARNETT is an author and environmentalist based in Gainesville, Florida. This presentation is sponsored by the Tallahassee Scientific Society as part of their Horizons 2023 speaker series. Tickets for this talk are available at the TSS website.

The human fascination with seashells is primal. In the 1950s, the nation burned with a shell-collecting fever only a Florida beach vacation could cure. Traveling from Florida to the Bahamas to the Maldives, West Africa, and beyond, Barnett uncovers the ancient history of shells as global currency, their use as religious and luxury objects, and the rarely appreciated but remarkable creatures that make them. While shells reveal how humans have altered the climate and the sea—down to its very chemistry—they are also sentinels of hope for coastal adaptation for climate change, alternative energy and other solutions that lie beneath the waves. Barnett illuminates the beauty and wonder of seashells as well as the human ingenuity and scientific solutions they represent for our warming world.

A Sentinel Landscape is an area designated by the U.S. Departments of Defense, Agriculture, and Interior. Sentinel landscapes provide focus areas where these agencies work together with other public agencies and private partners. The partnership strives to maintain compatible land uses that conserve listed species habitat and minimize encroachment threats and constraints to military missions. Northwest Florida was designated a Sentinel Landscape on February 15, 2022. 

Kent Wimmer, Senior Representative and Coordinator for the Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape, will give a presentation on this recent designation. It’s purpose is to create a regional partnership platform for the NWFSL, increase recognition of Sentinel Landscapes within Florida, and enhance coordination and problem-solving ability among stakeholders and partners (including landowners, military, state natural resource and agricultural agencies, funding agencies and entities, and NGOs). This will address resiliency and sustainability challenges to military installations, working lands and wildlife.

Magnolia Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society presents: A History of Florida Land Conservation By Clay Henderson

Location: King Life Sciences Building, FSU - 319 Stadium Dr.

Book Signing and Social will begin at 6:45 and the Meeting will begin at 7:30

Clay is an environmental lawyer and educator who has worked to protect Florida land since the 1980s. He drafted or sponsored many of the environmental provisions in the Florida Constitution. Clay's descriptions will celebrate the individuals and organizations who made Florida a leader in state-funded conservation and land preservation. He will recount how many of Florida's activists, artists, philanthropists, and politicians have worked to designate threatened land for use as parks, preserves, and other conservation areas.

His book, Forces of Nature - A History of Florida Land Conservation, recently published by University Press of Florida, will be available for purchase and signing.

The City of Tallahassee and Leon County Government invite residents to celebrate Arbor Day by planting trees in Governor's Park, 700 N. Blair Stone Road, on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 9 a.m. This fun and educational volunteer opportunity will help enhance the park's natural habitat and provide residents with information about native tree species and planting techniques.

Plantings will be done throughout the park and include a diverse mix of over 250 trees, including a variety of native hardwood species.

While volunteers give back to the community, the City and County want to ensure volunteers gain something, too. Staff foresters and arborists will be available to explain the characteristics of each species being planted and to assist with proper planting technique. Additionally, representatives from the Apalachee Chapter of the Audubon Society and Florida Division of Forestry (DOF) will be on hand to provide insight into bird habitat, forest management and tree care. Attendees can use this new knowledge to help choose the right tree for the right location in their own yards, serving to strengthen the overall quality of the urban canopy. As part of this effort, DOF will do a tree giveaway on site (limited supplies available).

Volunteers are asked to dress for the weather and bring gloves, shovels, drinking water and friends. The event will take place rain or shine.

The City of Tallahassee and Leon County Government have a long history of celebrating Arbor Day. Last year, hundreds of trees and shrubs were planted by friends and families at Broadmoor Pond Park.

For more information, contact the City's Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Affairs department at 850-891-3866.

This program will feature local naturalist, Cait Snyder, whose presentation will focus on things learned and unlearned over the past few years about Lake Jackson, our fascinating sinkhole lake. Come early to socialize and grab a bite to eat at Waterworks before the program officially starts at 7:00 PM.

Apalachee Audubon/Big Bend Sierra Club Social-Wednesday December 7, 2022 at Waterworks, 1133 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303. (NOTE: The original date was December 8, but it has been rescheduled.)

You are invited to come out and socialize with fellow Tallahassee nature lovers! This winter social is co-hosted by the Big Bend Sierra Club and the Apalachee Audubon Society.

No need to RSVP, just show up.