Volunteer Event Gallery
Welcome to the Natural Resources Department's Volunteer Event Gallery. This gallery includes a collection of images from some of the Department's past volunteer events.
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- Collecting invasives at Emerson Point Preserve
Volunteers work to remove exotic invasive Sansevieria (mother in law's tongue) at Emerson Point Preserve in Palmetto, FL.

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- Collecting air potatoes and trash at Rye Preserve
Volunteers work at Rye Preserve on January 23, 2010 to collect exotic invasive air potatoes and trash. This event was part of the "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day" series of volunteer events.

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- A bucket full of air potatoes!
A young volunteer shows off her collection of air potatoes during an exotic plant removal at Rye Preserve.

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- Removing exotic Sansevieria at Emerson Point Preserve
Volunteers remove invasive Sansevieria during the January 2010 workday at Emerson Point Preserve.

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- Robinson Fish Survey
Volunteers Geoff and Amanda work to collect fish and marine invertebrates at Robinson Preserve. During these surveys, the volunteers check to see how the marine life within the preserve is surviving and work to record the various species found at the location.

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- BioBlitz 2009 at Rye Preserve
Dr. Elsie McCord from New College shows young scientists how to collect insects during the 2009 BioBlitz at Rye Preserve.

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- Checking data at BioBlitz 2009

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- Johnson Middle School at Emerson Point
Johnson Middle School Students plant pine trees at Emerson Point Preserve in 2009.

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- Planting Pine trees

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- Paddle and Plant 2008

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- Paddle and Plant 2007

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- Green Armada Cleanup

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- Robinson Preserve Cleanup

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- Mangroves to be planted

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- Planting sea grapes

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- Robinson planting

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- Planting mangroves
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- Give a Day for the Bay 2010

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- Truck full of pepper trees

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- Removing pepper trees
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