Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Years ago local radio channel WTTB and its billboards proclaimed that Vero Beach was Where The Tropics Begin. (WTTB). This statement, while reasonably accurate during the end of the last century, it is no longer true due to warming temperatures.…
Pictured above is the Volunteer Nature Stewardship class of 2015 clustered up getting ready to take a walk in the hammock at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) on the north side of Oslo Road on 1/24/2015. A new Volunteer…
Florida's native poinsettia, paintedleaf (Euphorbia cyathophora), is native to much of the U.S, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. This native annual wildflower goes dormant in cooler climes but grows year-round in warmer locales. In Florida, paintedleaf grows…
This yellow necklacepod (Sophora tomentosa var. truncata) has "volunteered" in an open, recently mowed area at Bird's impoundment at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge (PINWR) where you can go east or west on the 2 1/2 mile impoundment dike loop.…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 