Inside our Winter/Spring 2025 newsletter:
– Promoting Conservation through Shared Experiences
– Floracliff is Green Check Gold!
– Discoveries from the Field: New botanical finds
– Homegrown Conservation: Stewarding nature through early detection
– Learn More Ways to Support Biodiversity at Home
– Kentucky Science Trail
– Promoting Conservation through Shared Experiences
– Floracliff is Green Check Gold!
– Discoveries from the Field: New botanical finds
– Homegrown Conservation: Stewarding nature through early detection
– Learn More Ways to Support Biodiversity at Home
– Kentucky Science Trail
Our latest newsletter highlights various projects we have been working on this year with a feature on Project NestWatch at the sanctuary.
Our winter 2023-24 newsletter highlights newly documented species as well as stewardship projects and programs of the past year.
Our summer newsletter features an article on the summer butterfly count we organize annually in Fayette County as well as a nature journaling piece by guest writer and volunteer, Carol Spence.
Floracliff is hiring! We have an opening for a part-time Land Stewardship Technician. Job duties will include stewardship and restoration projects, community science, data management and education and outreach. The position starts in September and has funding through December 2024. The deadline to apply is Sunday, June 25, 2023.
The latest newsletter provides a year-in-review of 2022, a thank you to our community of supporters, information on a new bumble bee discovery as well as a new program series. You’ll also find a calendar for upcoming events.
The summer 2022 newsletter features updates on Floracliff’s community science projects and the Ash Tree Protection project as well as information on new fall programs.
Floracliff’s response to the programming and outreach challenges of the last two years has produced an unexpected outcome. In 2021, we achieved our highest program participation to date! Read more about this year’s highlights, new wildlife records, as well as volunteer opportunities at the sanctuary.
The Summer 2021 newsletter highlights the results of the City Nature Challenge and other work we do with our partners to discover, document, and share Kentucky’s biodiversity.
Floracliff is bringing the City Nature Challenge to Lexington for the first time this spring. The City Nature Challenge is a global community science event that mobilizes urban residents and visitors to observe, document, and celebrate wild nature in and around urban areas. This focused and collective effort increases our awareness and understanding of urban biodiversity around the world.
Like everywhere else, the past year at Floracliff has been a year of adapting. Read more about the year’s highlights in our year-end newsletter. Additional features cover recent archaeological finds as well as information about the upcoming City Nature Challenge 2021: Lexington.
Our 2020 summer newsletter features updates on spring conservation projects and highlights new discoveries from land snail and beetle surveys at the sanctuary.
Each year at Floracliff brings new visitors, new programs, and new projects. During 2019, we
hosted more visitors and offered more hikes and programs than ever before. Learn more about the year’s highlights in our year-end newsletter.
Our summer newsletter features the recent listing of Trail’s End on the National Register of Historic Places as well as current projects to document Floracliff’s biodiversity.
Trail’s End, a former girls’ camp, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 26, 2019. The 59-acre tract owned by Floracliff encompasses the former camp lodge, the surrounding forest used for camp activities, as well as remnants of additional camp facilities.
Following a year of expansion at Floracliff, 2018 has been a year of cultivating ideas and bringing plans to fruition. Our 2018 year-end newsletter features highlights of 2018 as well as information about upcoming programs.
In the first half of 2018, we expanded our ash tree conservation efforts and our citizen science projects. Learn more about this and upcoming programs in our Summer 2018 newsletter.
2017 was a milestone year for Floracliff. We added new land and trails and it was a record-breaking year for our educational programs.
What are we working on now that we have closed on the Trail’s End tract? Learn more about what’s next for Trail’s End, volunteer projects, research projects and partner project in our Summer 2017 Newsletter.
Floracliff recently acquired an adjacent 59 acres, bringing the total acreage of the sanctuary to 346 acres. The addition, known as Trail’s End, is protected with a conservation easement provided by the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund.
