Join an Everglades National Park ranger for a 15-mile morning bike ride to the Shark Valley observation tower and look for birds, turtles and alligators sunning themselves along your path. Bring your own bicycle or rent one from the concession for $18.00. Meet on the back side of the visitor center by the benches.
Join an Everglades National Park ranger for a car caravan trip to the L-67 Canal, approximately 5 miles to the east of Shark Valley Entrance. The bike tour will lead you down the canal berm on an unpaved, gravel road, where you can explore the wildlife along the canal and also the great views of...
Filmmaking and Conservation Across South Florida’s National Parks and Cuba It’s the bug days of summer in south Florida, but don’t let that stop you from experiencing your national parks. Join us at Lincoln’s Beard Brewery for local brews and tales of exploration and conservation by filmmaker Richard Kern from Odyssey Earth. Come along as...
New Dates Added: Wednesday July 5, Thursday July 6 and Friday July 7. Call for Volunteers: Biscayne National Park is looking for a few good volunteers to help restore a spoil island in Biscayne Bay this summer by planting 1,000 native plants and trees - a project supported by the SFNPT. Read more about the...
"The Other Pink Bird" The SFNPT proudly supports Everglades National Park's BioCorps Program with annual grants to support interns to work alongside scientists in the park. This month former BioCorps intern Elizabeth Lago will be presenting at Nerd Nite Miami. She will be presenting her work with Everglades and Biscayne National Park on Roseate Spoonbills. Elizabeth's talk is...
Call for Volunteers: Biscayne National Park is looking for volunteers to help pull derelict and abandoned crab traps during the 10-day trap season closure in July. What: Volunteers will be searching for and removing "derelict" crab traps and trap debris from the waters of Biscayne Bay south of Black Point. Why: Lost and abandoned traps and trap debris cause significant damage...
Barry Fellman’s Mangrove Coast photographs reveal a hidden realm of South Florida’s Biscayne Bay coastline. New large format prints from Fellman’s twenty-year project explore the unexpected beauty, rhythms and patterns of South Florida’s mangrove habitat. At first basic notions of scale and distance remain a mystery. As you approach the photographs their diverse elements clarify into familiar...
Volunteer with the SFNPT to plant cypress trees in Big Cypress National Preserve. On Saturday, August 19th we will plant 150 cypress trees along Turner River Road as part of restoration work in the park. Trees will be planted at sites newly cleared of invasive plant species and at several new culvert locations in the...
Volunteers wanted! Join Biscayne National Park for National Public Lands Day this Saturday, September 30, 2017 to assist with Hurricane Irma recovery efforts at Biscayne National Park. See link for complete details and registration information. All volunteers MUST be pre-registered. https://www.neefusa.org/site-event/national-public-lands-day-volunteer-clean
Big Cypress Gallery Volunteer Day We have a volunteer request from our wonderful park friends, Clyde & Niki Butcher at the Big Cypress Gallery. They have organized a volunteer workday for Thursday, October 5th and are looking for extra hands to help. Each October the Big Cypress Gallery graciously hosts a major fundraiser for the Big...
