Broward County Sierra Club Group

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Upcycled art is the repurposing of materials that would otherwise enter our landfills into a new form, either for decoration, or for a new, re-invisoned use.

This workshop, we are using old cotton shirts and turning them into dog toys, which then will either be taken by participants, or donated to a local animal shelter. We will be lead by local artist, Leona McAndrews, a 4th generation Native Floridian Lifelong crafter!
After a 37 year career with Broward County, including three (3) years with Recycling & Contract Administration Division working on recycling and special projects, Leona knows just how important the impact of solid waste has on our landscapes. Outside of her career, she was also a past Director of the Trash 2 Treasure Creative Reuse Center in Broward County.

Please bring t-shirts (the bigger, the better) and scissors to the workshop. We will be hosting the event at North Lauderdale's Hampton Pines Park from 10am to 12pm.

RSVPing on Meetup does not guarantee a spot. Registering on the Sierra Club website is required to confirm your spot.
This is a Sierra Club Military Outdoors event. It is for active and former military, their families and supporters.
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Come out and celebrate Veterans Day with the Sierra Club Military Outdoors program. We will be scaling the walls at projectROCK in Oakland Park! Join us for this beginner Climb top rope session with private climbing guides on their over 85 climb lanes. Several walls in the facility mimic some of the great climbing mountains found across the Americas. Registration includes full gear rental.

Whether you're a veteran, active-duty service member, military family member, or community supporter, everyone is welcome!

This outing is made possible through the Sierra Club's Military Outdoors program. The goal of the program is to improve the lives of military members, veterans and their families through connections with the outdoors and inspire members of this community to become outspoken champions for environmental conservation and justice.

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Big Cypress National Preserve is north of Everglades National Park on the western side of the Florida Peninsula, and is home to alligators, Florida panthers, flocks of wading birds and black bears. Unfortunately, all these are threatened by human activity, but none more directly than black bears. Starting in December, wrongly being undergone in the name of conservation, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will allow the killing of 215 bears. Bears are intelligent and important animals and do not deserve to die for a trophy hunt. FWC commissioners moving forward with a second year of hunts is against the wants of Floridians and science-based conservation. Let's show we can co-exist with bears, enjoy their habitat, and promote ethical solutions for living side-by-side with bears.

Our hike will take us through pristine black bear habitat and a protected area of the Florida Wildlife Corridor. Black bears can utilize a home range of 120 square miles and travel hundreds of miles a day, but we will be utilizing the beautiful Florida Trail for much less traveling. Traveling north from the I-75 trailhead, we will enter Big Cypress north. This far dryer section of the trail in the Preserve follows Nobles Grade road while allowing beautiful swamp views. We will take the trail up to the Carpenter Camp Loop, blazed in blue, and take the main trail back to the trailhead; in total a 8 mile hike. We will have to leave paper forms on our cars, which will be provided. The only facilities will be at the rest area a short drive from the trailhead.

This is a mostly flat path, alternating between gravel, grass, and dried mud. There are portions with some shade, but it is mostly open to the sun. Along the way, you will pass through open grass plains, cypress domes, and burned-out forest. There is a wide variety of plants and animals to view along the way. In short, this is a peaceful look at everything the Everglades has to offer. Who knows what we'll see in black bear habitat!