GTM Research Reserve’s education team hosted an LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation) summer camp for Duval County middle school students, part of the Ribault Sportsmen Association (RSA). The summer campers participated in archery lessons and a competition, in addition to learning about the American alligator from FWC Law Enforcement Officer Dodd. She highlighted facts about the animal and its habitat as well.

Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve hosted a seining event with the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) in St. Augustine. Education Coordinator Josephine Spearman led a group of visiting summer campers from FSDB to pull a seine net through Guana Lake collecting species of fish, crabs and other organisms. The visiting campers finished the day with a tour of the reserve’s Visitor Center.

Staff at the St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve had the opportunity to welcome a summer camp this past Wednesday! The art camp, hosted by the nonprofit Joe Center for the Arts, visited the Buffer Preserve to work on creating masterpieces that combined nature with printmaking and sketching. Students arrived early in the morning and began a drawing assignment to get them thinking about what they might discover at the Buffer Preserve.