12/11/11 Native Spider Lilly Plants and invasive Water Hyacinths

I took a walk out into the swamp I live on and planted 14 native Spider Lilly Plants. I also pulled 14 Water Hyacinths from shore.

It felt good to put as many native into the swamp as exotics I pulled out. I don't have any Spider Lillies around my house but I see big patches of them down stream from me.

11/16/11 Cuban Anoles

Today I caught 2 Cuban Anoles at Back to Nature and 2 more at home. I also found one tiny Cesar Weed at home. All Cuban Anoles were Florida Snapping Turtle food.

11/13/11 Tallow, Taro and Air Potatoes

Today I led a University of Central Florida Eco-Advocates and Eco-Action team to fight the exotics in Jay Blanchard Park in Orlando. We took out 90 Taro plants, 2 big Chinese Tallow Trees adn 1 Air Potatoe vine. We took out some litter also.

Although we worked hard today I have just scratched the surface of the invasion in this park. The best park of today was having everyone grab the base of this one Chinese Tallow tree at the same time. We piled upon eachother and all together ripped that invasive SOB right out of the ground roots and all.

11/12/11 Cuban Anoles and Cesar Weeds

While visiting Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge I took out 2 Cuban Anoles (Anolis sagrei) and 20 Cesar Weeds. I got another sagrei at my house when I got home.

11/4/11 Cesar Weeds, Taros and Tallows

I returned to Lake Mills Park today. Eco-Action is cleaning the lake of litter and I'm on land fighting the war on exotics. I took out 21 Taro plants from the shoreline, 50 Cesar Weed Plants (again every one I could find) and 1 Chinese Tallow Tree.

10/10/11 Lake Mills

A did a walk though and took out 14 Cesar Weeds (which was every one I could find) and 1 mid sized Chinese Tallow Tree. I used my "Puller Bear" to rip the Chinese Tallow out of the ground roots and all.