Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
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…
Karen Schuster not only led a wonderful nature walk at the Brevard Barrier Island Sanctuary and Education Center. At the same time she took the photos shown here! Pictured above is coralbean (Erythrina herbacaea) which was flowering fabulously and profusely.…
Gumbo limbo (Bursera simarouba) grows to grand size at the Brevard Barrier Island Sanctuary and Education Center (BIC) where the warming influence of water moderates temperature extremes. Because of its reddish, peeling bark, gumbo limbo also is known as the…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 