Florida’s Ranches Play a Significant Role in Combatting the Threats from the Warming Climate
Excerpt from: https://floridaconserve.org/2021/04/16/floridas-ranches-play-a-significant-role-in-combatting-the-threats-from-the-warming-climate/ I consider myself blessed to live and work as a rancher in Florida. As a caretaker of…
Florida Ranch for Outstanding Environmental Stewardship
Excerpt From: https://www.environmentalstewardship.org/winner-gallery/inductees/blackbeard-ranch DENVER (July 30, 2019) – Blackbeard’s Ranch, in Myakka City, Fla., has been selected as one of…
Raising Nature on Florida Ranchlands
Excerpt from Virginia Gewin: https://www.biographic.com/raising-nature-on-florida-ranchlands/ Blackbeard’s Ranch in southwestern Florida is hardly classic cattle-rustling terrain. Rumbling across his land in…
Ranchers say most owners support corridor: ‘It’s our livelihood’
Excerpt form Mary Wozniak: https://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/articles/ranchers-say-most-owners-support-corridor-its-our-livelihood/?fbclid=IwAR3XUAb0W5scF2EGHruhZtCScc6eax-SKn89gef2zZuCA6pq5uqdzekpBIY Florida has 47,400 farms and ranches covering 9.7 million acres of land that provide a…
Florida’s Remarkable New Wildlife Corridor from the Panhandle to the Keys
Excerpt from Dexter Filkins: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/floridas-remarkable-new-wildlife-corridor-from-the-panhandle-to-the-keys?fbclid=IwAR2pFTlnOF2kN9L2ZtKf0dbSdxgsU3hXV0jS9xYy93mF8-my3T1C1aumGCE his week, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who is known nationally for his unstinting impersonation of…
Myakka City rancher honored by Audubon, Manatee County
Excerpt from Pam Eubanks at Your Observer: https://www.yourobserver.com/article/myakka-city-rancher-honored-by-audubon-manatee-county Wearing his cowboy hat, cattle rancher Jim Strickland rolled through pastureland on…
Audubon Florida Sustainable Rancher of the Year 2019: Jim Strickland
Each year, Audubon honors a rancher who has demonstrated exemplary environmentally-sustainable ranching practices and makes efforts to conserve native wildlife…
Florida Climate-Smart Agriculture Initiative Announced
The following is an excerpt from Brad Buck. GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida agricultural leaders are calling for deeper exploration of farmers,…
