There's a reason why people steal orchids - they're gorgeous. We will be looking for the Orange Fringed Orchids (Platanthera ciliaris) that sometimes come up around the sawgrass marsh in the year of and the year after a burn. Route 6.7 miles. Cover photo by jtalbert04 CC BY-NC 4.0
Finally our beautiful and overgrown sandhills were burned this summer, one in June and one in July. This hike will be at 75 Days Post Burn for Unit 19A and 44 days post-burn for Unit 23. Meet @ the main entrance. Route: 4.75km/3.95mi including sections of the Florida Trail, North/South Trail, and County Line Trail.
SAVE THE DATE - Join us for our second-annual Fall BioBlitz. Volunteer Opportunities Spreadsheet We would appreciate help manning the welcome table. Knowledge of iNaturalist and friendly demeanor are very helpful here. A BioBlitz is a is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated […]
A celebration of St. Cloud's nature! Friends of Split Oak will be tabling for the third year!
Please come to this meeting and show your support for a charter amendment to protect Split Oak Forest. Please take off work and make arrangements to be here, this is very important. Prepare to speak briefly on why Split Oak is important, if you can. If you don't feel comfortable speaking, we would appreciate your […]
Membership meeting, elections, and discussion.
This is a small meeting of the committee formed to explore the idea of an amendment to the Orange County Charter that would protect Split Oak Forest by preventing Orange County from taking any action to remove protections from Split Oak Forest, such as amending the Florida Communities Trust Agreement. Public comment is taken at […]
Orange County has before it a resolution to submit the application to FCT to remove Split Oak's protections. Please attend! The road is the Osceola Parkway Extension that's going from the Airport to the 417 to Narcoossee Road to the not-yet-developed Deseret Ranch. This road would not only directly destroy the 60 acres that the […]
This meeting is where the Orange County Charter Review Committee will consider a good amendment to protect Split Oak Forest by preventing Orange County from taking any action to harm Split Oak Forest. Public comment is taken at these meetings and the public is welcome to attend. Please come if you can! Whether you can […]
A two-mile hike featuring the meadow, a view to the area of the proposed toll road, the Orange / Osceola County line and the beautiful Lake 2. The Gopher Tortoise Day (April 11) planning committee will meet following the hike. If you'd like to help, please stay. Meet at the main entrance.