Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Sand pines (PInus clausa) were the Christmas trees of pioneer families. Think Charlie Brown Christmas trees. These fast-growing, short-needled pines inhabit high, dry places. You will find them growing on the higher ground in the southern portion of the Oslo…
"Until white men with little foresight changed the situation, the plants and animals of the area were adjusted to the physical forces and formed many remarkable ecosystems, according to the descriptions by the earliest naturalists. True, there were many storms,…
The south Florida slash pines (Pinus elliottii var. densa) at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area fared well in Hurricane Irma. The needles of the pines remain bright green, un-scorched by the searing winds of Hurricane Irma that scalded the leaves…
On the way to the annual meeting of the Florida Mosquito Control Association in St. Augustine, John Beidler, retired director of the Indian River Mosquito Control Association & I stopped at a St. Johns River Water Management District Conservation Area.…
