LINC Board President Carlton Ward (speaking) talked about the pending launch of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition next week on January 17th. Joe Davenport of Manship Films (far right) talked about LINC's Greater Everglades Conservation Atlas.

On Wednesday, January 11th, the Blan McBride family hosted a “LINC Together” Open House in Tallahassee. Over 70 artists and conservationists joined LINC Board President Carlton Ward Jr, Executive Director Peg McPherson, and LINC Affiliate Joe Davenport of Manship Films in a campfire presentation about the Florida Wildlife Corridor launching next week on January 17th, LINC’s Greater Everglades Conservation Art Atlas, and the future of Florida Forever.

Around a cozy bonfire, under an “almost” full moon, the presentations about LINC projects became an inspiring campfire discussion–with productive questions and insightful ideas to expand and enhance LINC’s mission of celebrating and protecting Florida’s natural and cultural heritage.

As one guest remarked, the event “linked up a fabulous gathering of “who’s who” in Florida art and conservation.

If you would like to host a “LINC Together” in your community, let us know.
Great things happen when artists and conservationists get together.

LINC Affiliate Elam Stoltzfus talking with LINC Conservation Photographer David Moynahan (left) and photographer Lou Kellenberger. Stoltzfus and his Live Oak Production Group will be creating a 2-hour PBS documentary on the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition involving a 100-day trek from Flamingo in the FL Everglades to the Okeefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia.

Author Gerald Grow presented everyone in attendance with the Seventh Edition of his book "Florida Parks--A Guide to Camping and Nature." Grow, at left, is with artists Sara Chang and Mark Fletcher

 

Bird photographer and archaeologist James J. Miller is also the author of "An Environmental History of NE Florida." Miller (left) is with renowned watercolor painter Bill McKeown and his wife Sara.

Tim O'Neil of the Wildlife Foundation with his wife and LINC's 2012 Florida Forever Conservation Photography Calendar