We help in the management of public and private lands to improve habitats for wildlife and the plants they depend on. We work to restore degraded lands.
Land Management Partners
Florida's nearly 10 million acres of conservation lands require active stewardship to maintain them as viable ecosystems and as places for people to use for educational and recreational purposes. As part of this process, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) conducts periodic reviews of state properties acquired under voter-initiated conservation purchases. Since 2009, FNPS members have played a part in nearly all of these reviews. On site land management reviews ensure that the property is being cared for in accordance with approved management plans. The success of our reviews of FDEP properties led several of Florida's Water Management Districts to request our services for reviews of their own Land Management Plans. The success of the Land Management Partners Committee (LMP) led to its establishment as a stand alone committee in 2010.
FNPS is committed to assisting landowners and land managers in many ways, including restoration projects, habitat and rare plant population monitoring, seed collection, and plants surveys.
Hands on Management
FNPS not only assists in management planning, we manage lands. Some of our volunteers are certified burn managers. We assist small land owners with small scale burns needed manage their properties. Our volunteers also work with the managers of learning centers and local preserves to both plan for management, and implement it.
Nuisance Species Control
Our volunteers both lead and participate in nuisance species control projects, usually on public conservation properties.
Plant Relocations and Restorations
When properties are developed and roadways & utilities built, it is inevitable that sometimes rare plant habitats are impacted. We work with agencies and land owners to relocate plants, especially rare one, from sites to be impacted to public preserve lands that have plant communities in need of restoration.
Urban Restoration
We work with individual landowners to teach and implement management practices beneficial to wildlife including birds, small mammals, butterflies, insect pollinators, and game animals. We often do this at the level of individual lots in urban areas with demonstrated success at bringing appropriate wildlife back into our neighborhoods. We teach about appropriate plants. We teach about management to conserve water and maintain or improve water quality.