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Sensing Nature is an environmental education company that connects people with natural Florida through engaging interpretative learning and immersive experiences, fostering a profound understanding of nature's value and empowering positive actions for the future.
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June 25, 2026

Thank you for a wonderful May and June!

Last month, we graduated our spring adult UF FMNP Coastal Systems class (Great job, Grads!) and we also finished out a fun spring semester of school field trips.

This month, we enjoyed meeting so many visitors interested in making our oceans healthier, while we also refreshed connections with other like-minded environmental organizations at our Sensing Nature booth during the World Ocean Day event held locally at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium on June 6th, with Keep Pinellas Beautiful leading the way.

We are always excited to visit other organizations' summer camps and share a little bit of nature with the youths, and this summer has been hopping with program requests - thank you to everyone who has invited us out to their summer camps so far, from Tarpon Springs to Riverview! Right now, our "Sensing Wildlife" and "What Makes a Bird a Bird?" programs have been the most often requested, with Brian's "Prehistoric Florida Fossils" being a close runner-up.  

Teachers, teachers everywhere - at least they were during the second week of the month during St. Petersburg Audubon Society's 18th Annual Teacher Ecology Camp. Each year, we are fortunate to be asked to facilitate and teach Florida teachers and informal educators about natural Florida. This year, we got our hands into the soil and learned all about creating habitat within our own landscapes and how to attract wildlife. (I wonder if anyone has activity yet in their Screech Owl bird house that they built and took home?)

Was that a frog or a gator's roar? Don't know for sure? Well, our most recent class of FMNP Graduates does! Yesterday, we graduated our Wildlife Monitoring class, which learned about mammal, avian, and herptile monitoring and survey programs, including aural monitoring methods and their values. Anyone ready to go frog listening? 

What's happening this Saturday, June 27th? Well, Florida Fossils, of course! Join us at Bok Tower Gardens for their Fossil Festival - Sensing Nature will be giving a fossil presentation, and we will have fun fossil touch-table activities for all ages, matching games, and even glyptodont stickers. There will be other fossil activities and presentations too. Grab the family and join us this Saturday!  

July Highlights
  • FMNP Freshwater Systems class - Registration closes July 1st. See our FMNP webpages for more info. (Pssst...teachers...there are partial scholarships for you, but you have to act quickly!)

August Highlights
  • FMNP Environmental Interpretation class - Registration opens soon. See our FMNP webpages for more info.

Thank you for wanting some natural Florida in your life,

Jeanne (& Brian)
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