Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Coralbean (Erythrina herbacea) is just beginning to flower on Orchid Island. Flowering tends to be later inland at places like the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. Coralbean often grows in the midst of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) and hammock plants, reaching…
Established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge (PINWR) is the precedent setting first U.S. national wildlife refuge. Over the years it has has been expanded from its original size. Local citrus farmer and PINWR advocate…
Gumbo limbo (Bursera simarouba) are burly big trees, usually multi-trunked. Only a few are found at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, youngish trees "seeded" by birds after the Christmas freeze of 1989 that brought bone-chilling temperatures well below freezing and…
Every year is different, and we hopefully & thankfully welcome 2002. 2021 brought more covid challenges. It wasn't a wonderful year for acorn production either. 2018 was a mast year. The live oak trees (Quercus virginiana) were in overdrive and…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 