1. Natural Area Teaching Laboratory Annual Report. 2008-2009
Doug Levey
Chair,

2. 34th Street NATL-East NATL-West Archer Rd
(As shown in this 2000 aerial photo) NATL is 60 acres south of CP and the EYN building. It consists of two conservation areas: NATL-west and NATL-east (added in 2005)

3. Proposed Activities for 2008-09
Finish developing NATL-east
Build new walkway (200 ft across wooded marsh)
Produce content for kiosk
Finish basic trail guides for all trails
Host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for trails
Advertise NATL to departments; record use of NATL
Continue eradication of exotic species
Continue pine restoration (burning & planting)
Revise kiosk content and signs (as needed) 3

4. Completed Activities 2008-09
Finish developing NATL-east
Build new walkway (200 ft across wooded marsh)
Produce content for kiosk
Finish basic trail guides for all trails
Host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for trails
Advertise NATL to departments; record use of NATL
Continue eradication of exotic species
Continue pine restoration (burning & planting)
Revise kiosk content and signs (on-going)
Still working on this 4

5. NATL-east Walkway
Built by Tom Walker and Bob Guggenheim from mostly scrap lumber

6. We are moving away from trail guides, replacing them with stake signs
20% of plant species at NATL now have stake signs.

7. Self-Guided Nature Trails
3 Nov 2008: Student Body President Kevin Reilly and UF President Bernie Machen cut “ribbon” to open trails.

8. Survey of Use College Department # of courses/yr # of students/yr
Agriculture & Life Sciences
Entomology & Nematology 16
505
Forest Resources & Conservation 4
135
Plant Pathology 1 5
Soil & Water Science 35
Liberal Arts & Sciences
Botany 6
327
Zoology 52
Education
Teaching and Learning 24
Engineering
Environmental Engineering Sciences 2 47
SUM 36
1160

9. Minigrants
1. NATL without borders: a community approach for management of invasives. Gerardo Celis & Corrie Pieterson
Brochure
Ardisia removal
Files for an invasives layer in NATL’s GIS map
2. Historical context of NATL. David Munroe
Digitized records

10. Miscellaneous TrailMaster camera purchased to record trail use.
Burns and planting of wiregrass and lopsided Indian grass plugs
Mapped and measured original pines in NATL-east
Updated and enhanced online vascular plant list
Jack Putz: new chair of NAAC

11. Budget Report and Spending Plan
“[The chair of NATL] … will annually submit a spending plan to the Lakes, Vegetation and Landscaping Committee (LVLC) for its approval, and the Chair of NAAC will submit an annual report about the uses of endowment funds to LVLC.”
See handout

12. Proposed Budget
Funds available for (excluding stipend for TA)
Brought forward from
$309
Projected income for
Provost
$2,100
NATL endowment
$4,800
Sum
$6,900
Grand Total
$7,209

13. 2009-10 Proposed Budget Spending plan for 2009-10 Budgeted
Routine expenses
$1,000
Undergraduate assistant
$3,952
Minigrant program
Soil pit
$500
Sum
$6,452
Reserved
$757
Grand Total
$7,209

14. Naming request
On 6 October 2009, the NAAC unanimously approved a letter requesting that the NATL Conservation Area be named in honor of Tom Walker:
“Thomas Walker NATL Conservation Area”