In the recent years, the frogs number all over the world are getting less and less, research found out the it is due to the polluted environment that affect their habitat. Many believe that all the frogs require clean environment to live. For the pet frogs owner, this may be a lesson that we need to be always reminded, keep the pet frog tank clean at all time.

There are facts about frogs at different part of the world are collected. Most of them are quite interesting. Understand more about this may help you in caring your pet frogs.

• Do you know that less than 100 species of frogs are found in United States and Canada? Yet there are totally 4000 species in this world.
• One of the differences between frogs and toads is frogs' skin is smooth, long legs, and toads have shorts legs and roughs skin.
• Smallest frog is found in Cuba, it is about 12mm (0.5") in its size. Largest frog is from West Africa with 300mm (12") long.
• Frogs lay egg in wet area. For example, red eyed tree frog laid their eggs on leaves that are above the water, so that tadpoles can drop into water when the eggs hatch.
• Do you know that frogs do drink water, the skin absorb water for the body.
• Frogs are colourful. Frogs adopt to the environment with their colour matching the surrounding to protect themselves from predators.
• Some frogs lay few eggs, but some can lay up to thousands of eggs.
• Adult frogs breath through their skin and lungs; tadpoles breath through gills.
• Frogs can see and breath while they are in the water, because the eyes and nostrils are on top of their head.
• Japanese believe that frog can bring lucks.

If you are having pet frog, hope you take care of this unique and special animal. The lifecycle of frog are amazing; starting with egg, then tadpoles and eventually frog. There are huge differences at different stages of the life.

As pet frog owner, let's hope it bring us luck.

Red eyed tree frog can be a great pet frog. To learn more about this type frog and how to care about them, you can always visit http://www.redeyedtreefrog.org for more the pet frog caresheet, information and guide. ]]> http://bitesizejewelry.wordpress.com/?p=255 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:04:22 +0000 Jed & Brandy http://bitesizejewelry.hi.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/featured-artist-catherin-mcmillan/ [caption id="attachment_256" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Australian artist Catherin McMillan and her two distinct styles"][/caption]

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When we first opened our doors to design submissions, we were shocked by how many talented artists sent in their work.  We were even more shocked when we received a submission all the way from Australia!

Catherin McMillan is a very talented artist with two very different styles.  Her acrylic-based pop art style with its bold lines and minimalist colors, and her realistic mixed-media paintings provide something enjoyable for everyone.  We are honored to have her outstanding work available on our pendants and we hope you all love them!

While Catherin focuses primarily on commissioned projects, her work is also available in several galleries or from her directly.  Her paintings have also just been accepted into the prestigous Equine Art Guild which is US based with an array of international artists.

We contacted Catherin for more info about herself... here's what she had to say:

"Drawing and painting have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.  I have worked in a number of styles and mediums over the years and have now come full circle back to the subject I am passionate about, Animals.

Whilst I love to immortalize pets and horses to create special memories for their owners, I am equally as passionate about drawing wildlife.

Originally I trained in watercolour at a private art school which I attended for a number of years.  Ending my time there as the assistant art teacher, I learned a lot about realism in my time there.

After art school I undertook a 2 year drawing course and this is where I discovered chalk pastels. Up until recently I worked in pastels exclusively.

I have rediscovered the joy of watercolours and am now working in this wonderful medium once again along with pastels to create my realistic style of artwork.  Acrylics I reserve for my modern pop art style of art.

Having 2 distinct styles of artwork has opened up all sorts of opportunities, and created a choice for my followers when commissioning a piece for themselves."

Catherin McMillan's work can be found in private collections in  Australia, Wales, England, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Canada, Labrador, USA, Brazil, Italy, Paraguay, Germany and Denmark.

Here is what a few of her customers have had to say:

Maggie - Commissioned by Luke NSW.
G'day Catherin
I picked Maggie's portrait up on the weekend and I am thrilled.  You did a fantastic job.
She is hanging in pride of place in my lounge room.
Thanks very much.  I look forward to seeing Maggie in the your gallery.

Luke

Sue - Oscar Commissioned by Gwyn for Sue ACT Australia
Hi, Catherin - I just wanted to thank you for the most amazing drawing of my    Oscar, that Gwyn Wilding organised with you! It is absolutely awesome!! and is hanging in the front room, so all our cattery customers can see him, also - if he's off sleeping somewhere!
Sue

R66 Commissioned by Siobhan NSW Australia
Oh Catherin its fabulous. Even better than we could have ever imagined.
Thank you so much. Tim & I love it and so do our friends.
Hope to do it again sometime.
Siobhan and Tim

While Catherin is primarily a commission based artist, a limited number of her works can be found currently at the galleries listed below:

Australia

Broughton Art Gallery Berry NSW

Crooked River Winery and Gallery Gerringong NSW

Nowra Wildlife Park  Nowra NSW

Canada

Enchanting Animal Art

South Africa

Wildlife Safaris South Africa

Catherin is a member of the Canine Artist Guild, Equine Artist Guild, as well as Artists Helping Animals a profession group of artists. Catherin was recently accepted into the Wildlife and Botanical Artists association of Australia.

Catherin is available for private commissions of domestic animals, wildlife and people portraits.

For more info you can visit her site:

AnimalArtHouse.com

Or email her directly at:

catherin@animalarthouse.com

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I was going to post an update with some photos so far but I've decided to hold back for another week or two then do one large article showing my favourite images taken over my time photographing the deer during the rut (and hopefully, with some actual fight shots!). Despite not capturing any action yet I've had a great time visiting the park at sunrise and at sunset over the weekend...I've had lovely warm misty light, golden evening light and also out and out fog so it's been great to have such varying opportunities. I've even stumbled on a Kestrels hunting ground too so that might be a project for the near future...!

Mississippi gopher frogs are finger snacks for forest predators and "that's the nature of the business if you're an amphibian." So says biologist Mike Sisson in an Associated Press report about the relatively good summer that the nearly-extinct gopher frogs have had in Harrison County, Mississippi. I didn't know that this species' call sounds like someone snoring. There's a joke in there somewhere. Here's the story, and here's an excerpt:

This year, for a change, nature gave a bit of a break to one of the nation's most endangered species.

The frogs breed only in ponds so shallow they dry up in summer. Hot, dry springs have stranded tadpoles every year since 1998, when 161 froglets hopped out of Glen's Pond in coastal Harrison County, Miss.

Scientists believe fewer than 100 mature adults live in the wild. Five zoos — in New Orleans, Memphis, Detroit, Miami and Omaha, Neb. — have another 75 frogs.

"Our efforts have managed to stave off likely extinction but there's a long way to go," said Joe Pechmann, an associate professor of biology at Western Carolina University who has studied the frogs since 2002.

An Australian native bee on the inside, desperately wanting to bee out!!

(I must go check for his name...) (Hmmmmm!! Can't find his name!!  Help me, someone!!)

Righto!  That's the end of the little stuff.  More animals of the more sizeable variety to follow... (next post!!)

Last weekend me and some more members of my course went up to Glen Etive/ Glen Coe to go see the Red Bull Etive River Race. As paddlers do when it's low water they pray for rain, unfortunately this time the rain came in so fast that the main event had to be moved from a amazing stretch of river that had photogenic angles at every point to a bouncy inaccessible section of river higher up. This meant that again I didn't quite get the photos I wanted out of it but I found other things to do. Speaking with a pro photographer who was there was particularly useful as was speaking with the Red Bull organisers and the photographer from visit scotland, so really useful contacts were made. Another thing i found to do was to photo the natural beauty that was all around me but this came with the big challenge of keeping the lens dry, something that i have yet  to fully master. The only decent paddling photos I managed to get were those of the nutters that were willing to run the sections were the main race had been call off from. Two managed to run it successfully and the others had incidents including a swim over the waterfall into some rocks. 

The area is one of outstanding beauty and I wished that I could have been there longer than a weekend so that I could've seen some more of the Landscape and the general area with the sun on it. More Pictures After the Break.

The sun did come out eventually.

For more infomation on the event visit EtiveRiverRace.co.uk

Go and enjoy the beauty of scotland yourself VisitScotland.

Sim

"Hmmmmm!!? What will I be when I grow up??"
Don't know which frogs own him ... whether he'll be brown or green one?

Who are their mummy and daddy, I don't know! Notice too, the tiny wrigglers!! Dinner laid on!!

More shots from camp last weekend!!

Elephant Figurine
Carved teak elephant figurine is wonderful and very cool Christmas gift idea for Elephant collectors. It is made up of teak wood so it is not easily perishable, thus it will serve as a long time memory.

Elephant Cushion Cover
Another great elephant gift idea is purchasing throw cushion covers with elephants featured on them. They will be your love ones classical and luxurious home decorations.

Elephant Tableware
If you have a loved one who enjoys cooking and eating , Elephant tableware with elephants featured on them such as chopsticks and sauce bowls set, coasters set or table cloths are the perfect gifts.

Elephant Book
If your loved one likes nature and loves to read, elephant books can be the perfect gift. These books may include poetry and stories about elephants or be reference books about elephants. If you know of a young person who is interested in nature, you can give them an elephant reference book so they can start learning about the different types of elephants, where they live, and how they survive each day.

Elephant Bedspread
Many bed cover or bedspread have wonderful elephant pattern. If you know the size of the bed, you can choose elephant bed cover to match.

Elephant Tissue Box Cover
For other White Elephant inexpensive Christmas gift ideas you might want to consider giving silk tissue box cover. They are designed with elephants pattern made to fit standard Kleenex tissue box (L:9.75" W:4.5" H:4"). You can find some very unique ones that someone else is sure to love. They are very low cost and they make great home decor and looks great in bathroom or dinner table.

A small flock of Canada geese took off and flew overhead.  Then a about 8 went over. Since J likes the game Oregon Trail , we pretended to shoot them.  Then a dozen took off and we practiced aiming at them.  Then about twenty.  Now, last night I had told my husband there were no geese landing in that field anymore when he wondered if he should go up and hunt in the morning.  There had been none the last few days.  But this was a lovely sunny, clear, still morning.  And Jay was coaching a soccer game so the geese were safe.

Convinced all the geese had flown, J, Hawthorne and I crossed over into the corn field to continue our walk.  As we came up the first rise, Hawthorne took off ahead of us.  I looked ahead and there was a large flock of wild turkeys!  Fourteen took flight into the woods.  I have not ever seen that many back there.  Poor Jay.  It is also turkey season.   Calling Hawthorne back, we turned around to go share the sad news when about 75 more geese took off from the other side of the field, completing our rout of all the wild game available for huntint in the near vicinity.

Winter is coming on and all the outside mending of the house needs to be complete. The patio lights had always been poor. Then one day my son, in trying to climb up to the balcony, as sons are want to do,  had stepped on one of the wall mounted lights and broken it. Since I had to fix one anyway I might as well replace both with something more suitable.

I can't say I really like doing this kind of work. We're having a warm spell and this lack of enthusiasm combined with the working conditions had gotten me all hot and bothered. I had removed all my clothes except for my shoes and underwear and was grinding through the replacement of the lights when I heard a soft clucking sound from the forest. I had heard this sound before and knew it to be the approach of a flock of wild Turkeys. Great time for a break from the tedium of installing the new light fixtures.

Turkeys do not stay in one spot for long, they are almost constantly in motion. This meant I had to get my camera as fast as possible. Up the stairs, then back out the house at a full run. Half way to the last known position of the Turkeys I stop to get a new bearing on the flock and to setup the camera.

My Nikon D80 has a nice feature where by, with the press of two buttons simultaneously it will return all the appropriate adjustments back to something reasonable. So far the Nikon boys have got the ergonomics done well. This done, I now have to dial in an appropriate exposure compensation because Nikon screwed up. I point the camera at a patch of bush dial in the correct white balance and shoot a test shot. I check the RGB histogram to gauge the exposure compensation that I know I'm going to need. As usual the histogram is showing blow outs in the highlights and I need to move the histogram to the left about one f stop. I select the exposure compensation button and spin the rear dial in the direction that I want to move the histogram. Of course being a frigging Nikon the thumb wheel moves the histogram in the opposite direction from the motion of your thumb. This I know only too well. Unfortunately all this camera tweaking stuff is not the foremost thing on my mind. I'm trying with all my senses to locate the subject of all this hurrying, the wild turkey flock.

I'm crouching on the ground half way to the forest trying to control my breathing and eliminating all body motion so as to not to be detected by the turkeys. I have tuned my hearing and am scanning the forest with a keen eye for isolating some tell tale sign of turkeys.

I move the exposure compensation wheel in the intuitive  but wrong direction and now I'm two f stops overexposed. This is going to be poor, but I don't know it yet.

Time to make another test shot to check for proper exposure. But before I can take the shot, I detect a feral cat also in hunting mode trying to sneak up on the turkeys. This is going to be even better than just a straight shot of the turkeys. No time for the test shot to confirm I've dialed in all the appropriate adjustments for the perfect shot.

Just as I see the cat he also sees me and breaks off his engagement with the turkeys to face me, the new threat. I now recognize this as the same feral cat that I put a lead pellet into a couple of months ago when he was attacking my nest full of Robin chicks. Then I see the turkeys. The first thing through my mind is get a shot with the cat and turkeys together. That's going to be really good. But first a quick snap of the cat on his lonesome. Since the cat has seen me I can't advance forward without causing him to run off. I turn my back to him and walk sideways to get into the right position for a shot to get the turkeys and cat in the same frame. I get to the position turn to take the shot and there is the cat but now I can't see the turkeys.

I have to make another adjustment but in doing so I scare the cat. He seems to have recognized me for that bad guy with the air rifle. The cat takes off and disturbs the Turkeys. I now know where the Turkeys are but their alertness level has gone up a notch.

They are no longer making any noise. I don't think they have sensed me yet. I sneak into a decent position and start shooting but the stupid Nikon is making too much noise and the turkeys decide to move off. I assess the situation carefully and realize the terrain is not going to let me get close without detection.

It's still worth a try, so for the next half hour I skulk through the forest with the turkeys staying just out of reach. There is no doubt that they know I'm there. Being half naked I have no protection from all the sharp branches and am getting good and well scratched up. I curse my running shoes that make it impossible to move through the forest without making a sound. I need the tough bare feet of my youth but I will probably never have them again.

It's time to break off the engagement and return to fixing the patio lights.

I'm pissed at Nikon for ruining this golden opportunity, but it's thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and I am thankful to even have such a camera.

I think I need to buy some better looking underwear. Denizens of the forest beware.

Sometimes when we drive near the parking/viewing area we can see the birds from miles away.  Sometimes we can hear them long before we get there.  Today it looked like we would get little viewing for our efforts.  There have been years when the snow geese are lined up against the fence, rising and landing in groups among the larger flock.  Today there seemed to be just a few small groups in the far distance.  A few would rise and settle again, but we could see only a couple dozen against the tall grass.

If we were quiet enough we could hear them honking.  A couple flocks of ducks fluttered in.  We sat and listened and watched and talked quietly about the beauty of the place and the times we had visited in the past.  We talked about why the birds might gather some times and not others when we have visited on the same weekend every year.  Does it have to do with high or low pressure in the atmosphere?  Does air temperature affect when they fly?  Is climate change a factor?  We had no answers.

We may visit again in the next week or two, take the kids down to see if we have better luck.  Perhaps, however, we will wait until next year.  We like to see them, but we are in no rush.  I know they will come back.  So we will too.

More photos from camp!! I don't think this lavender bush was happy to have this host on it. I don't think they were meant to be there.

I looked up in my pest book and found that they are Red & Black Horehound Bugs (Agonscilis rutila), and they suck the sap out of native plants. Well, the lavender is not a native, so all the more reason for it not to be too happy!!

Unwanted guests feed on the lavender bush in the camp's garden. By the look of it, they are doing a bit more than feeding!! I think spring has sprung!! :-)

Last Saturday, my friend Michaelanne and I got to watch the Rocky Mountains hibernate. It was one of the more memorable hikes I've done in recent years, a late-season jaunt across familiar ground in an unfamiliar season. In Colorado, the difference between one weekend and the next is drastic and ultimately humbling. In a week where I watched the economy do more of a tailspin — and also watched more friends lose their jobs — it was deeply refreshing to walk in the woods, hear the most perfect silence, and get my spiritual bearings back. We tend to be small, temporal, self-obsessed, insulated and driven by things that are ultimately not important. Nature is persistent, beautiful, and tends to be more brutal than any stock market. This fact was not lost on me last Saturday — as we entered a clearing on the trail, we could see the Ten Mile Range disappearing in the snow.

That'll make you pay attention, especially when you are wearing shorts like I was.

This hike is top-notch. I've done it four times, and it never ceases to amaze me. Do you want in on the secret? Oh, alright. Seeing that my blog gets about 15 readers a day (and I presume many of you are out of state), I'll divulge. Just don't telegraph it to Colorado.com. You can't trust those tourism promoters!

It's the southern end of the Gore Range Trail. The first segment is fairly popular as it goes to Wheeler Lakes, a pair of alpine ponds in a clearing. But the trail forks to the left, and what's beyond that junction is what interests me. I can't name another trail in Colorado that has such variety: it weaves in and out of the woods, through meadows, past ponds, around marshes, across creeks, along rocky ridges, back into the trees, across scree, beneath a hidden lake, and ultimately, up through the tundra to a low saddle called Uneva Pass, where a window to the north unveils the serrated Gore Range.

Each of the four times I've trekked up this (twice I've reached the pass), something magical happens. The first time was with my best friend Matt after I'd graduated from high school. At the scree field just shy of Lost Lake we saw an ermine dash across the trail and scurry over the rocks. The stench it left behind — they are mustalids like skunks — was short-lived but I'll never forget the lesson: don't f&*# with an ermine.

This go around, Mikey and I had a pretty different wildlife encounter: two couples of blue grouse.

Now, obviously I love birds. Who doesn't? Certainly not these folks. But more often than not, the only birds you see on the trail in Colorado are juncos, jays, nutcrackers and the occasional woodpecker (a western tanager is another story). But grouse is a bit different. In spring these horny little bastards get all gussied up in hilarious breeding plumage and strut like they're on Project Runway. In fall, well, they're more concerned about survival. These fatties were pecking around the forest floor and running around with their tails up. Easy dinner if this were the Oregon Trail.

One couple was just shy of Officer's Gulch. The other couple was hanging out just beyond it. At the crossing of the creek, Mikey and I found ourselves hiking through chest-deep willows the color of rust.

Mikey is running in the Philadelphia Marathon in November, so we kept a pretty quick pace for most of the day (and she somehow ran 18 miles the next day). By 11am we were at Lost Lake (pictured at the top, where she's covering her ears) eating lunch and debating whether we should push for the pass. One stiff wind — which rippled the placid lake and carried the scent of snow — sent us back to the trailhead.

We made great time, ultimately reaching these ponds by 1pm, just as the wind mellowed out. In summer, the ponds are surrounded by marsh marigolds and elephantheads.

But on this day, it was pale grass and brittle stalks baring seeds. You can see what I believe are elephantheads, the dark stems below left of the grass.

One final thing about this trail, why I love it and why I was a bit relieved last weekend as we trekked it. As I've mentioned before — and as any of you living in Colorado know — our northern mountains have been ravaged by the mountain pine beetle, especially Summit County and the Gore Range. In the past few months, I've gotten accustom to the sight of red and dead lodgepole pines in the James Peak Wilderness, Grand Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park and Steamboat Springs.

Last weekend, it dawned on me as we were heading down in a light snow that the forests leading up to Uneva Pass seem unaffected by the beetle. My fingers are crossed on this one, but I wonder if it has to do with how spaced out the trees are. I've always enjoyed how this trail weaves in and out of meadows and takes in views of the Ten Mile Range and the Mount of the Holy Cross. And maybe those meadows are a buffer. Or maybe the beetle just hasn't found them yet. We'll have to see. In the event I go back in the next few summers and find one of my favorite places in Colorado red and dead, I'll just have to remind myself that nature is brutal and there is a certain humility I can gain from that.

We got back to the car at 3pm, stretched our chilled muscles and hopped in the car. It then began to pour an icy rain...nature, at least on this day, was forgiving.

i'm swirled in orange color

happy and carefree as the soaring little skybirds

above in the clear blue sapphire morning

everything is beautiful and ripe

I'm filled with immense joys of living in the now

I cannot keep the smile off of my face, nor do i wish

to

i hear sacred music and

My heart races with the little skybirds, i know their

happiness and they take me along with them to a

place of exquisite and profound beauty

I am grateful that i am alive and so loved

e

www.magicalsaltmarshes.com

This was taken at the same Punta Rassa marina in Fort Myers where I took the shot of that row of white pelicans, though the two shots were taken a couple of years apart.  These guys weren't at discrete as the white pelicans in staking out the fishing boats as they came back with their leftover bait; they sat right on the pier pilings, ready to swarm over the poor boatmen as they came puttering back from the mangroves.

These are youngish brown pelicans, as evidenced by the white cap.  As they age, the white turns into yellow, moving from the bridge of the bill back over the scalp (kind of like a receding hairline).

An image captured recently following some work I am completing on a Wildlife Module for my AP Diploma. Although this image will not be part of the final submission, it is part of the notes sections, where I am giving some thoughts and ideas as to the subject matter and what I wish to achieve.

The image above has been placed through my typical workflow with no cropping. I was concious and tried to practice getting the composition correct in the lens. this itself is challenging with a fast moving subject that just won't stand still long enough.

Shot with the Nikon D3 and a new Sigma 300mm - 800mm f/5.6 lens, (that's right); this lens just needed to be tested out. An immense lens offering possibilites that I could only wonder about beforehand. Shooting wildlife has been a challenge itself and given me yet more things to consider when I do this type of shoot. My nearest lens to this monster is the Nikon 80mm - 400mm f/4.5 VR, whilst in itslef is an amazing unit, sometimes it's just not long enough to get where I want.

I spent a day photographing other wildlife with this lens and I will post some of the images I captured with the lens on the Blog. Using a Manfrotto 055MF4 tripod, I set the D3 to Aperture Priority, ISO 320 at f/5.6, shutter speed 1/750 sec and a focal length of 700mm.

I am still working through the keepers and trash that I collected, but more on this later. As I have said before, alot of photos taken on the shoot don't make it through the selection process and as I shot the day in RAW with a bracketing compensation of -1.0EV each side of the burst, the digital film soon became full.

Other images in this shoot will be posted shortly and you will see by the focal length of the lens, it gave me photo opportunites I just couldn't get before. It has, I am pleased to say, also given me a greater interest in wildlife photography, knowing and appreciating the type of images I can capture.

Panna, MP, Oct 7: Not a single tigress or cub has been spotted in Panna National Tiger Park in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh since a long time causing great concern, official sources said today.

''Sprawled over an expanse of 543 sq km, the park may have some tigers. However, no tigress or cub can be spotted. A scheme has been chalked out to bring two tigress from Bandhavgarh or Kanha National Park,'' Park Manager L K Choudhary said.

He said Principal Chief Forest Conservator (Wildlife) P B Gangopadhyay has written to the Union Deputy Inspector General of Forests (Wildlife) Anmol Kumar about the situation and stressed on the need for bringing tigers from other national parks.

The letter stated that no clear indications in the decrease of tigers had been observed but scarcity of tigress and cubs was being felt.

Wildlife sources said the tiger census 2006 put the number of tigers at 20. However, there was no idea about the present population.

Former MP Lokendra Singh said the park had a population of 500 tigers about 50 years back. However, this number was not more than 2-3 tigers at present.

The schedule on each Trail Day event will be the same. RSVP hikes will be led by local natural resource experts at 9 a.m. Visitors must “RSVP” for these hikes. From 9 a.m. to noon, EEL staff and volunteers will provide information on natural lands conservation, recreation, and volunteering. At 9:30 and 11 a.m. there will be hour-long, guided hikes that will accommodate visitors on a first-come, first served basis. From 9 a.m. to noon, visitors can explore sanctuary trails on their own, speak to staff and volunteers, or participate in the children’s activities.

EEL Trail Days kicks off at South Lake Conservation Area, 4500 Lancaster Lane, Mims, on Saturday, October 11. The RSVP hike will be led by Dr. Ross Hinkle, EEL Selection and Management Committee chairman.

The second event will be held at Helen and Allan Cruickshank Sanctuary, 360 Barnes Blvd.,Rockledge, on Saturday, October 18. The RSVP hike will be led by Dr. Scott Taylor, EEL Central Region Land Manager.

The next event will be held at Malabar Scrub Sanctuary, 1501 Malabar Woods Blvd, Malabar,on Saturday, October 25. The RSVP hike will be led by Mike Knight, EEL Program Manager.

The final Trail Day will be held at Coconut Point Sanctuary, 4000 South Highway A1A,Melbourne Beach, on November 8. The RSVP hike will be led by Andy Bankert, Audubon Society birding expert. 

Participants areasked to bring their own drinking water and wear comfortable shoes for the hikes. To register for an RSVP hike, contact Brad Manley at 321-255-4466, or brad.manley@brevardparks.com.  

The Skeena River Sockeye Salmon population in on a list of globally threatened species. The International Conservation Union has added three of the sub populations to their red list with.

The Morice-Nanik a has been labelled critically endangered with the population experiencing more than an 80 percent decline. The Upper Skeena Population is endangered with a 50 to 80 percent decline and the Lower Skeena population is s listed as vulnerable at a decline of 30 to 50 percent.
The findings are based upon a study of 33 genetically unique salmon species grouped into 5 sub-groups that were studied over a 12 year period.