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Florida Fish and Wildlife News We’re on Facebook and Florida Fish Twitter @FlWildFed To follow us, just go to and Wildlife www.fwfonline.org and look for: News FFWN is printed on recycled paper, ISSN 1520-8214 Volume 31, Issue 4 Affiliated with the National Wildlife Federation November 2017 Senate President Negron receives Florida Wildlife Federation Legislator of the Year award for leadership on the Everglades reservoir legislation during the 2017 Session, on October 11, 2017. 2017-2018 FWF Annual Business Meeting The Florida Wildlife Federation held its annual business meeting Sept. 23, 2017 at St. Pete Beach Tradewinds Guy Harvey Resort. Three new board members were elected to serve for 2017-2018 on the 27 volunteer member FWF Board of Directors. They are: Anna Hamilton (Gainesville), Pepper Uchino (Tallahassee) and David Preston (Miami). We welcome these new members to the board as well as George Jones (Ft. Pierce), whose appoint- ment to the board during the summer was ratified at the meeting. FWF typi- Left to right – Sarah Owen Gledhill (FWF Planning Director), Senator Curt cally holds three to four meetings per year. Some of them are one day meet- Kiser (FWF Board Member), Preston Robertson (FWF VP and General ings on a Saturday; some are two days meetings. A field trip is usually a Counsel), Senate President Joe Negron, Manley Fuller (FWF President) and component of each meeting, held on Friday afternoon or Sunday of the meet- Anna Upton (Everglades Foundation). ing weekend. The members of the board serve one year terms and travel to meetings at their own expense, and are united in their love for natural Florida Announcing the 81st and conserving our woods and waters for future Floridians. If board member- Annual Conservation ship interests you, and you are a member in good standing of the Federation, PAID Awards Banquet, please contact Diane Hines at [email protected]. Your interest will be NON-Profit Org NON-Profit U.S. POSTAGE Permit No. 2840 Permit No. conveyed to the board and you may be asked to provide some background JACKSONVILLE, FL JACKSONVILLE, Saturday, April 28, 2018 information. Information about our new Directors is included in this issue. at the Safety Harbor Inn & Resort on Tampa Bay. www.safetyharborspa.com Please mark your calendars! Details to follow in our next issue. If you would prefer to receive INSIDE: this publication via email MESSAGES FROM THE CHAIR AND PRESIDENT.......................2-3 instead of print, contact NEWS AROUND THE STATE.............................................4-10 [email protected]. Please 9TH ANNUAL KIDS’ WILDLIFE HABITAT CONTEST............9 include your name and address HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS.....................................................11-12 with your request. CONSERVATION CALENDAR................................................16 www.fwfonline.org Tallahassee, FL 32314-6870 FL Tallahassee, P.O. Box 6870 Box P.O. Florida Wildlife Federation Wildlife Florida official publication official ofthe 1 Florida Fish and Wildlife News • November 2017 • Keeping the Wild in Florida Since 1936! Keeping the Wild in Florida Since 1936! • November 2017 • Florida Fish and Wildlife News 1 CHAIR’S MESSAGE Then we have the Holidays six by Rick Abbott weeks away. I can’t wait. Fish- ing, hunting and exploring with family members and friends I don’t see on a regular basis. My family is excited about the cooling temps and being able to be outdoors and not worry- ing about being eaten alive by insects. This weekend with the night- ly forecast in the low 40’s high 30’s the Abbotts are headed to the woods. I just told my busi- ness partners and staff I will not be in on Monday! I wanted to say to all our We all have a lot to be thank- Diane Hines, Beth Hakemoller and Claudia Farren represented FWF on October 28, 2017 at the St. Marks NWR Monarch Festival. It was a Florida members, friends and ful for. Don’t let any negativity great day with gorgeous weather! fellow residents my thoughts spoil your holiday season. We and prayers go out to each and have all of next year for that. *Tom Evans’ conservation legacy forged every one that was directly or Be safe, be careful and have fun indirectly effected by Irma or in the great outdoors! through consensus Nate. Although the Abbott fam- Delaware Business Times “Tom has the ability to posit an issue in ily was not directly impacted, it October 19, 2017 a manner that people can relate to. He says to one person that it will save the was very stressful looking at Love Florida, National Wildlife Federation Presi- taxpayers money. Then other people the Weather Channel and fol- dent Collin O’Mara called the Delaware might be commercial fishermen or peo- lowing the projected paths of Don’t Litter Republican “one of the most nonparti- ple who are interested in eco-tourism. both storms barreling right at san politicians I’ve ever met.” He’s able to relate it to all those folks. Conservationists say Evans’ friend- He’s good at it. He’s really good at it. us. Wow! ships were pivotal in the passage of a People who have natural political ability This time of year for a lot of law that protected almost 2,700 miles of can do that kind of thing.” Floridians is very special and shoreline and probably saved lives and Continue Reading: http://www. homes this hurricane season. The New delawarebusinesstimes.com/tom-evans- what we wait for. College and York Times called it a “magic formula” conservation-legacy-forged-consensus/ pro football seasons. Baseball and “the most important environmental playoffs and the World Series. law nobody has even heard of.” *Tom is a proud member of the Flor- The start of basketball season. Manley Fuller, president of the Flor- ida Wildlife Federation Board of Direc- ida Wildlife Federation, put it this way: tors. FLORIDA WILDLIFE FEDERATION NORTHWEST REGION CENTRAL REGION STAFF TALLAHASSEE OFFICE 2545 Blairstone Pines Drive; P.O. Box 6870 REGIONAL DIRECTOR REGIONAL DIRECTOR Curt Kiser Billy Causey PRESIDENT Tallahassee, Florida 32314-6870 5385 WPA Rd, Lamont, FL 32336 29901 SE 150th St., Altoona, FL 32702 Manley K. Fuller, III 850-656-7113; FAX 850-942-4431 850-591-5416 305-395-0150 Vice President for Conservation & General Counsel www.fwfonline.org E-mail: [email protected] DISTRICT I DIRECTOR DISTRICT II DIRECTOR DISTRICT V DIRECTOR DISTRICT VI DIRECTOR Preston T. Robertson Steve Theberge Jenny Brock Tim Bachmeyer Jay Bushnell Affiliated With National Wildlife Federation 3616 Oakbrook Lane 311 Old Magnolia Road 2092 Braxton St. 15639 NW 46th Lane Vice President of Administration Panama City, FL 32408 Crawfordville, FL 32327 Clermont, FL 34711 Chiefland, FL 32626 Diane Hines OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND STAFF 503-338-0420 850-459-9341 561-801-5752 352-493-1807 Membership & Database Policy Consultant Coordinator Jay Liles Lynn Jones Communications Specialist CHAIR IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR NORTHEAST REGION SOUTHERN REGION Executive Cole Sousa Rick Abbott Steve O’Hara Administrative Assistant REGIONAL DIRECTOR REGIONAL DIRECTOR 3233 Heather Hill Road Michelle Forman Florida Fish & Wildlife News Tallahassee, FL 32309 PAST CHAIR’S COUNCIL Richard Hamann Martha Musgrove Producer/Editor: 850-284-4300 Steve O’Hara 2020 SE 32nd Place, Gainesville, FL 32641 2432 Edgewater Drive, West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Administrative Assistant Danny Gwynn-Shapiro Jenny Brock 352-273-0842 561-965-9409 Tessa Kleck Habitats Coordinator VICE-CHAIR Jim Schuette DISTRICT III DIRECTOR DISTRICT IV DIRECTOR DISTRICT VII DIRECTOR DISTRICT VIII DIRECTOR Education Consultant Pat Pearson Joseph Atterbury Linda Stanley Jim Schuette Anna Hamilton 5393 Pennock Point Road Bob Reid Linda Stanley Franklin Adams Claudia Farren 244 Dorothy Land Rd. 6209 NW 246th Ave. Planning Director Jupiter, FL 33458 David J. White 5665 Summit Blvd 761 15th St. NW Branford, FL 32008 Alachua, FL 32615 FWF SW FL OFFICE Sarah Owen Gledhill 561-371-0532 Lynn Alan Thompson West Palm Bch, FL 33415 Naples, FL 34120 561-301-4883 904-599-0008 SW Florida Field Representative Franklin Adams 561-312-3918 239-455-1567 H Nancy Payton Jim Scanland FWF NE FL OFFICE VICE-CHAIR 2590 Golden Gate Pkwy, Ste. 105 Jay H. Exum Tommy Needham 88 Riberia St., Ste. 400 Naples, FL 34105 2253 Peachleaf Ct, Longwood, Walt Brandon St. Augustine, FL 32084 EIGHT AT-LARGE DIRECTORS (239) 643-4111 FL 32779 Timothy Keyser (904) 347-6490 321-229-5653 Richard Tillis Ned Stone Tom Evans, Jr. Bobbie Lindsay Ray Carthy 2012 Coral Shores Drive 1000 Warwick Lane 212 Caribbean Road U.F. 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