Nature trail is open after sunrise until dusk

Visitors who drop by for a leisure hike will discover a natural Florida forest with three distinct woodland habitats: wetlands, hardwood hammock and upland pine forest. A boardwalk across a small wetland leads to a half-mile trail loop.

Named to commemorate Homer Powell, the Homer Powell Nature Center is an air-conditioned rustic facility for conducting environmental education sessions by local groups. Several picnic tables with a grill are located in an open grassy area nearby.

Pedestrians can easily access Wuesthoff Park from the Titusville Multi-Use Trail. Paved from the southwest corner of the park to Imperial Estates Elementary School, the 10-ft wide, 1.8-mile trails offers recreation to walkers, cyclists, joggers, and rollerbladers--no motorized vehicles except wheelchairs, no skateboarding, pass on left and give audible warning, small children require adult supervision, service animals only.

Nature trail clearing, plant identification, maps and environmental workshops are volunteer contributions offered by organizations or individuals. Call for further information.

Activitiy Features

• Nature Trail (.5-mile)
  
• School Science Project Assistance
• Easy Access to and from Titusville's Multiuse Trail

Habitats - Florida Hardwood Hammock, Upland Pine Forest, Wetlands
Watchable Wildlife - Native Songbirds, Migratory Songbirds (fall, winter), Hawk, Woodpecker
ADA Accessible - Nature Center, Restrooms

Dos & Don'ts
1) Service animals only
2) Other restrictions as posted

Spring into National Wildife Week with Shawangunk Nature Preserve founders, Timothy and Peggy Spencer Behrendt as they share their fever for cherishing and protecting nature on nearly 400 acres of land they have designated forever wild in the southern Adirondacks! All the while, Tim and Peg will entertain everyone with their extraordinary musical talents!

Sunday, March 14 at 2 p.m.

Harp and Harmony CDs will be available for a $15 donation.

For more information, please call 321.723.3556.

Meetings at Kiwanis Island Park

3rd Monday of each month, 7:00 p.m.
Community Building - Kiwanis Island Park
951 Kiwanis Island Park Rd
Merritt Island, FL 32952

To confirm meeting status, Email

Friends of Ulumay is an organization of people who are passionate about preserving and enhancing the natural resources of the Ulumay Wildlife Sanctuary. Some members participate in outdoor recreational activities such as kayaking, hiking and mountain biking at Ulumay. Many members support restoring the Ulumay Wildlife Sanctuary to a more natural state, including the removal of Brazilian pepper trees (Schinus terebinthifolius) - an invasive non-indigenous plant.

Rotary Park in Merritt Island

Nature Nuggets
A nature class for ages 3 through 5 years
Includes story time, crafts, songs, puppets and fun

1 Hour Class
Offered 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month
9:30 AM

Pre-registration necessary. Class Size: 1 to 7
The online form class 'Limit' may show more than 7 registrants to allow for waiting list.
Click Here To Pre-Register Now
Also offered at 10:45 AM, 2:00 PM, 3:30 PM

For additional information, call 455-1385

'Florida Native Plants' with guest speaker Suzanne Meyer, President of the Florida Native Plant Society, SeaRocket chapter. Bring your lunch and enjoy while discovering more about our community.

Tuesday, March 16 from Noon till 1 p.m.

This program is free.

For more information, call 321.264.5185.

We'll meet up again in April. The gardens have been hit hard by the frost and we will begin working on them in April. Please join us to help and learn about Florida Native Gardening.

This program is free.

For more information, please call 321.264.5185.

Learn a unique batik technique with fiber artist, Jo-Ann Jensen and design a silk scark with native spring wildflowers!

Thursday, March 18 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost of materials is $38 and enrollment is limited to 12 people.

Call 321.723.3556 to reserve by Tuesday, March 16.

No refunds after this date, unless minimum of 6 enrollments is not met.

Nature trail is open after sunrise until dusk

Visitors who drop by for a leisure hike will discover a natural Florida forest with three distinct woodland habitats: wetlands, hardwood hammock and upland pine forest. A boardwalk across a small wetland leads to a half-mile trail loop.

Named to commemorate Homer Powell, the Homer Powell Nature Center is an air-conditioned rustic facility for conducting environmental education sessions by local groups. Several picnic tables with a grill are located in an open grassy area nearby.

Pedestrians can easily access Wuesthoff Park from the Titusville Multi-Use Trail. Paved from the southwest corner of the park to Imperial Estates Elementary School, the 10-ft wide, 1.8-mile trails offers recreation to walkers, cyclists, joggers, and rollerbladers--no motorized vehicles except wheelchairs, no skateboarding, pass on left and give audible warning, small children require adult supervision, service animals only.

Nature trail clearing, plant identification, maps and environmental workshops are volunteer contributions offered by organizations or individuals. Call for further information.

Activitiy Features

• Nature Trail (.5-mile)
  
• School Science Project Assistance
• Easy Access to and from Titusville's Multiuse Trail

Habitats - Florida Hardwood Hammock, Upland Pine Forest, Wetlands
Watchable Wildlife - Native Songbirds, Migratory Songbirds (fall, winter), Hawk, Woodpecker
ADA Accessible - Nature Center, Restrooms

Dos & Don'ts
1) Service animals only
2) Other restrictions as posted

Spring into National Wildife Week with Shawangunk Nature Preserve founders, Timothy and Peggy Spencer Behrendt as they share their fever for cherishing and protecting nature on nearly 400 acres of land they have designated forever wild in the southern Adirondacks! All the while, Tim and Peg will entertain everyone with their extraordinary musical talents!

Sunday, March 14 at 2 p.m.

Harp and Harmony CDs will be available for a $15 donation.

For more information, please call 321.723.3556.

Meetings at Kiwanis Island Park

3rd Monday of each month, 7:00 p.m.
Community Building - Kiwanis Island Park
951 Kiwanis Island Park Rd
Merritt Island, FL 32952

To confirm meeting status, Email

Friends of Ulumay is an organization of people who are passionate about preserving and enhancing the natural resources of the Ulumay Wildlife Sanctuary. Some members participate in outdoor recreational activities such as kayaking, hiking and mountain biking at Ulumay. Many members support restoring the Ulumay Wildlife Sanctuary to a more natural state, including the removal of Brazilian pepper trees (Schinus terebinthifolius) - an invasive non-indigenous plant.

Rotary Park in Merritt Island

Nature Nuggets
A nature class for ages 3 through 5 years
Includes story time, crafts, songs, puppets and fun

1 Hour Class
Offered 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month
9:30 AM

Pre-registration necessary. Class Size: 1 to 7
The online form class 'Limit' may show more than 7 registrants to allow for waiting list.
Click Here To Pre-Register Now
Also offered at 10:45 AM, 2:00 PM, 3:30 PM

For additional information, call 455-1385

'Florida Native Plants' with guest speaker Suzanne Meyer, President of the Florida Native Plant Society, SeaRocket chapter. Bring your lunch and enjoy while discovering more about our community.

Tuesday, March 16 from Noon till 1 p.m.

This program is free.

For more information, call 321.264.5185.

We'll meet up again in April. The gardens have been hit hard by the frost and we will begin working on them in April. Please join us to help and learn about Florida Native Gardening.

This program is free.

For more information, please call 321.264.5185.

Learn a unique batik technique with fiber artist, Jo-Ann Jensen and design a silk scark with native spring wildflowers!

Thursday, March 18 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost of materials is $38 and enrollment is limited to 12 people.

Call 321.723.3556 to reserve by Tuesday, March 16.

No refunds after this date, unless minimum of 6 enrollments is not met.

Spring into National Wildife Week with Shawangunk Nature Preserve founders, Timothy and Peggy Spencer Behrendt as they share their fever for cherishing and protecting nature on nearly 400 acres of land they have designated forever wild in the southern Adirondacks! All the while, Tim and Peg will entertain everyone with their extraordinary musical talents!

Sunday, March 14 at 2 p.m.

Harp and Harmony CDs will be available for a $15 donation.

For more information, please call 321.723.3556.

'Florida Native Plants' with guest speaker Suzanne Meyer, President of the Florida Native Plant Society, SeaRocket chapter. Bring your lunch and enjoy while discovering more about our community.

Tuesday, March 16 from Noon till 1 p.m.

This program is free.

For more information, call 321.264.5185.

* * * NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING * * *

Environmentally Endangered Lands Program
Selection and Management Committee Site Visit

Meeting Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Site Visit Location: Cory Lopez Property Properties
Meeting Location: Barrier Island Sanctuary
Management and Education Center
8385 South Highway A1A
Melbourne Beach, FL 32951

Meeting Time: 9:00 AM

The purpose of this site visit is to evaluate the ecological resource values of lands under consideration for public acquisition and management by the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program.

Any questions regarding this meeting should be directed to Jenny Ashbury, EEL Program at 321.255.4466 or jenny.ashbury@brevardparks.com

If a person desires to appeal any decision made by this board, agency or commission with respect to any matter considered at this meeting or hearing, such a person will need a record of this proceeding and that, for such purposes, such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of this proceeding is made, at his/her own expense, which record includes testimony and evidence upon which any such appeal is to be based.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, F.S., persons needing accommodations or any interpreter to participate in the proceeding should contact Laura Clark, Administrative Secretary for the Parks and Recreation Environmentally Endangered Lands Program, no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting at 255.4466.

Learn a unique batik technique with fiber artist, Jo-Ann Jensen and design a silk scark with native spring wildflowers!

Thursday, March 18 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost of materials is $38 and enrollment is limited to 12 people.

Call 321.723.3556 to reserve by Tuesday, March 16.

No refunds after this date, unless minimum of 6 enrollments is not met.

Help spring clean the beach!

Saturday, March 20, staring at 9 a.m.

Volunteering is fun, rewarding and best of all free!

For more information, please call 321.723.3556

Coconut Point Sanctuary. This is a joint acquisition of the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program and the State of Florida, acquired in 1994. Vegetation is coastal strand, coastal scrub, some hammocks, and wetlands along the Indian River Lagoon. The first prescribed was conducted in 1999. Much of the site burned in a wildfire in March 2006 and in a prescribed burn in April 2007. Recovery has been rapid and quite impressive.

Saturday, March 20 from 9 a.m. till noon

DIRECTIONS: I-95 to St. Rt. 192 . East on SR 192 to A1A. South on A1A about 5.8 miles. Park at Ponce de Leon County Park on the east side of A1A, cross A1A and walk a short distance north to the kiosk at the north end of the loop trail.

Please wear closed toe shoes and sunscreen and bring your water bottle, a snack and insect repellant. Binoculars and cameras are optional.

Celebrate the first day of Spring with a 1-mile hike on the Barrier Island Sanctuary Trail to explore, discover and photograph or sketch a list of what's in bloom from dune to lagoon!

Saturday, March 20 at 1 p.m.

Please wear water shoes and sunscreen and bring your camera or sketchbook, water bottle and a snack.

Enrollment is limited to 20 people.

Call 321.723.3556 to reserve.