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4-H marine camp offered July 30 – August 3, 2012 at Camp Timpoochee

Learn about fresh and salt water habitats, snorkeling and more at week long camp Are you interested in learning about marine life, going fishing, or exploring the underwater world with a mask and snorkel? If so, this is the camp for you. Separated from the Destin beaches by the Choctawatchee Bay, Camp Timpoochee 4-H Center, (located in Niceville, Florida) allows campers first hand experience with Florida’s marine environment from above and below the waterline. Timpoochee’s marine lab is equipped with...

Moving feral hogs is illegal; bad for landowners

By Stan Kirkland, FWC Feral or wild hogs have an incredible reproductive potential: A few hogs can quickly grow to several dozen. Although despised and unwanted by many land managers, there’s increasing evidence some people move hogs in violation of the law and without regard for the environmental consequences. On May 6, a Walton County sheriff’s deputy saw vehicle tracks leading from Highway 20 into Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) property near Villa Tasso. He stopped and heard the sound...

Learn about alligators at Topsail June 15

Time: 1:30 p.m. Once they were hunted, then they were protected, now they are farmed.  Come and learn the facts and history of the American Alligator.  Park at the Day-Use area off Hwy 30A. Take a short hike to the club house. Fees: Program included in the park admission fee of $6.00 per vehicle. Topsail Hill Preserve State Park is located at 7525 W. Scenic Highway 30A, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida 32459. For more information, call (850) 267-8330 ::MAP::...

North Florida nightfall brings out diversity of bats, biologists

13 different species of bats exist in Florida As night falls over north Florida, a band of 66 men and women split into small groups to find bats in damp, mosquito-rich places in the Panhandle, like Apalachicola National Forest, Joe Budd Wildlife Management Area and St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. To ensnare the bats, biologists hoist nearly invisible “mist nets” as tall as trees. They wait for hours in the dark. They have equipment out on portable tables, so they...

Walton friends to document environmental effort in British Columbia

One man’s 80-mile stand up paddle brings hope for change Walton County residents Leslie Kolovich and Joan Vienot are both colleagues and good friends. Kolovich, host of the Stand Up Paddle Radio Show and Vienot owner of Pool Pal in Freeport often combine their enthusiasm for stand up paddling by interviewing and photographing interesting stand up paddle boarders across North America for Kolovichs’ radio show. Their latest journey will bring the two of them to British Columbia on June 16,...