Volume 3, Issue 3 River Center Hammock

April 2008 Volunteers pulled and planted for a good cause!

Master Gardeners, green

thumbs, and non-gardeners alike
participated in the Great
American Cleanup on April 19.
With a grant from Keep Palm
Beach County Beautiful, we were
able purchase plants, mulch, and
soil to recreate a “hammock” at
the River Center. These hard
working individuals spent all visitors in a
morning pulling out non-natives, natural
trimming existing plants, and “hammock”
putting in new native plants and setting as
RIVER TIDINGS

trees that will not only be great they enter the

habitat, but will immerse our River Center.
LOXAHATCHEE RIVER ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER

Concept Water Budget Exhibit

Featured Exhibit—
Water Budget
Balancing the “water When we
budget” may be harder think
than it looks! There is a about our
very limited supply of water use,
freshwater available for we need
the many uses and de- to under-
mands in our community. stand that
Urban developments and it will
industry need water for take away
homes and businesses, from the
agriculture needs water available water for other uses and habitats. Can
for its crops, and the uses and for our environ- YOU do it?
“environment” needs wa- ment. This exhibit shows The balance for this
ter to maintain its ecosys- how we have to make exhibit is being made by
tem. Can you imagine if decisions about where the Jupiter High School stu-
there were no water in our water goes and how much dents in a wood-working
rivers, streams, or lakes? is available for different class.

Special points of interest:

Loxahatchee River • Friends of the Loxahatchee River meet-
Science Symposium ings are regularly held at the River Cen-
ter at noon on the 1st Friday of the
month.
April 30—5:30 p.m.
• Loxahatchee River Science Symposium is
River Center Reception April 30-May1. www.loxahatcheeriver/
To register, please visit symposium for more information.
Jocelyn O’Neill 561-743-7123 or
www.loxahatcheeriver.org jocelyn@loxahatcheeriver.org

www.loxahatcheeriver.org