Hello Board members! Please find attached my President's report that covers the period since the Annual Conference. And, please take a moment to look over this bio for Grace Howell. Grace has agreed to serve on the FNPS Board in the capacity of a Director and moving toward the position of Education Chair. Don Spence brought attention to Grace's interest in native plants, conservation, and FNPS, and I nominate Grace for Board membership.
Grace is a North Florida native and lifelong nature lover. She graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Natural Resource Conservation and worked in the City of Gainesville’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs for 9 years, first as an environmental educator at Morningside Nature Center and then as a land manager and biologist in all of the city’s nature parks. She now works for the Alachua Conservation Trust as a land management specialist, carrying out restoration and natural resource management goals on ACT’s conservation properties and teaching land stewardship skills to young professionals through the Women in the Woods internship program.
Since her first FNPS conference in 2015, Grace has attended several land management reviews as a representative for FNPS and spoken at the Daytona conference in 2016 about a collaborative sandhill restoration project in Gainesville. She is a native plant enthusiast, amateur botanist, fire ecology advocate, and Certified Prescribed Burn Manager. Much of her free time is spent exploring, botanizing and delighting in Florida’s natural areas. More about Grace at Alachua Conservation Trust:
http://alachuaconservationtrust.org/index.php?/alachua_v2/staff/Please see draft agenda attached.
GoToMeeting Link:Board of Directors June meeting
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