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meetings in the season

                                                             Calendar - Season 2022


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Plan on joining us as Mangrove Action Group:

March 23, 2022 @1:30PM at the PB Community Center for our annual meeting with featured guest speaker, Charles Sobczak, returning to share his new presentaion, ReWilding Florida

​November 17th, 2021 @ 1:30PM Charles Sobczak, SWFL naturalist and premier author

The following upcoming speakers dates to be announced...

Professor Greg Tolley,  Professor of Marine Science and Executive Director of The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University


Dr. Mike Parsons, FGCU Professor of Marine Science and Director of the Coastal Watershed Institute


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June 2021: Mangrove Action Group continues to meet regularly via Zoom to monitor Clam Pass and other critical environmental areas. In person meetings will resume this fall.
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Fall 2020 - Spring 2021: Mangrove Action Group has been meeting regularly via Zoom and continues to monitor Clam Pass, the USACE Coastal Study and other critical areas. In person meetings will resume as soon as the CDC guidelines ease restrictions. 


2020
Coming this Fall - Southwest Florida's top naturalst and premier natural history author, Charles Sobczak.

Professor Greg Tolley. Dr. Tolley will discuss clean water challenges to our communities, its ecosystem management and their restoration efforts in Estero and Rookery Bays and other critical areas in southwest Florida.

​February 19 - Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic 

January 22 - Adam Dinuovo, Shorebird specialist for National Audubon, Rookery Bay, Clam Pass discusses 35% loss of birds, and lifestyles of Skimmers and other shorebirds. Three billion birds lost in North America.
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2019
December 18 - Dr Mary Lusk, Assn't Professor, Gulf Coast Research, U-F. Discussion of landscape practices including reclaimed water and pesticides, 

November - No Meeting

April 24 - Moving to Florida? Where Would You Live?
April Olson, Conservancy of Southwest Florida explains the controversial project for creating new towns for 300,000 expected arrivals moving to Florida.


March 27, 2019 – Deadly Blooms:  Good, Bad, Ugly
Dr. Michael Parsons, Professor of Marine Science. Coastal Watershed Institute, FGCU
Is Naples tested and measured for deadly algae? What are we doing to cultivate algae?  Can we eat the fish? 

February 27 – The Temperature of the Mangroves
Jeremy Sterk, Ecologist, Partner, 

Earth Tech Environmental
Health report of the 570 Acre Mangrove Forest.


January 23  - How Many People Can Collier County Hold?
April Olson, Senior Environmental Planning Specialist for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida
Workshops on Big versus Small Planned Towns


2018
December 19, 2018 – When – Not IF – the Wind Blows
Dr. Joanne Muller, Department of Marine and Ecological Science, FGCU
The climate and the winds that forecast what is ahead.



 
 


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The North Beach Owl, Sheridan Arnold
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Pelican Taking a Bath, Maurice Barancik
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Great white egret feeding chick, Maurice Barancik
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