By Peter Clayton On June 12th, the Marsh Creek Country Club and residents joined forces in an important step toward acquiring Audubon certification for the golf course and its community. Chad Hansen, course superintendent, and…
Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) are the required host plants for caterpillars of the monarch butterfly and thus play a critical role in the monarch’s life cycle. The loss of milkweed plants in the monarch’s spring and…
Reprinted Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal By Adam H. Graham I walk along a narrow boardwalk that crawls low over a swamp. The smell of decay hangs in the humid air as shards of…
By Peter Clayton The Audubon Certification project group recently installed eight blue bird houses on the golf course while Chad Hansen and his team had earlier erected a purple martin house next to the second…
By Stan Hill “Quick, I think there’s a cormorant in the pond with a plastic bag over its head,” I hear my wife sayingurgently. Using binoculars, we determined that was exactly the case. Thinking the…
This Year’s Recipient: Friends of Fish Island The Saint Augustine Historical Society is pleased to announce Friends of Fish Island has been selected as the 2022 recipient of The Herschel Shepard Award for Excellence in…
Thank you to those Marsh Creek volunteers who came out to clean up Fish Island Preserve last Saturday. The weather was cold but once inside the preserve it became toasty. We appreciate all of our…
We are Floridians and do not like to do a clean up with cold and rainy weather, so The Fish Island Preserve clean up was re-scheduled. I hope you can make the time to help,…
Many of you signed petitions and helped to keep Fish Island from being developed. Now that the trails are open, some clean up is needed. Take this opportunity to check out this beautiful spot that…
We are probably familiar with the the hit TV series, MASH. Alan Alda, as Hawkeye Pierce, or maybe it was radar, would interrupt whatever the moment’s scene was, with a plaintive cry: “Incoming”. And that…
Below is an important update, written by Maureen Long of Save Fish Island, to our efforts of several years to preserve Fish Island’s beauty and benefit to our community and region. The first paragraph states…