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Friends Online Store is Open

2/12/2021

 
image of beige hat with Lower Suwannee NWR logo
image of blue hat with Cedar Keys NWR logo
With the Welcome Desk still closed due to the pandemic and most community festivals cancelled, Friends merchandise has been unavailable to our members and friends for months.
But fear not, we have recently opened the Friends Online Store through this website. We have started with a limited number of items as we learn the ropes of managing the store and fulfilling orders with an all-volunteer crew.
This is how it works. We recruited a volunteer for each item that is available for purchase: hats, luna-moth shirts, trees-of-the-refuge shirts, swallow-tailed kite shirts, and soon butterfly shirts. Each volunteer has the inventory of that item at home. When the store receives an order, the volunteer who is fulfilling orders for that item pulls out the stash of the item, packages it up, gets the postage, and mails it with the USPS. This may not be slick, but we hope it works!
We are delighted to be making the items available again so you can wear them and spread the word about our great refuges.
image of black t-shirt with luna moth
image of t-shirt with swallow-tailed kite and map of flight route from Lower Suwannee to Brazil
art work of trees of the Lower Suwannee as on the t-shirt
image of blue, women's shirt with butterflies
Coming Soon
image of gray, women's shirt with butterflies
Coming Soon

Annual Meeting 2021: Sign Up Open

2/9/2021

 
The Friends 2021 Annual Meeting is coming up on Saturday February 27 at 10:00a.m.  It will be a ZOOM ONLY meeting.

You can sign up now.  Email [email protected]:
  • Give us your name and tell us you intend to attend. It is that easy!
  • Let us know if you are new to zoom and would like to schedule a help session ahead of time to practice joining the meeting.
  • Also, send us up to 5 photos you have taken on the refuges during the pandemic. We will create a slide show for the meeting. The deadline is February 20 for sending photos.
Within a few days, by return email, you will receive:
  • the link to join the meeting
  • a tip sheet for using zoom
  • a discount code for the new Online Store (just as in the past Friends merchandise was discounted at the Annual Meeting.)
As with most events in 2020, and so far in 2021, the Friends Annual Membership Meeting will not be an in-person gathering at the Refuge Headquarters, and the delectable McCain’s BBQ will not be served.

On the other hand, you can attend even if you did not come south this winter and are still enjoying the snowy north country. You won't have to worry about rain, cold, or noseeums. And, in many ways the Annual Meeting will be very much like last year’s.

Refuge Manager Andrew Gude will tell us what has been happening during the pandemic.

Current president, John McPherson, and president-elect Peg Hall will provide updates on the many things accomplished by the Friends organization this year including:
  • the Vista Project (remember the tour from last year), and
  • the Friends To Sign or Not To Sign face-off with U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service headquarters over an agreement we thought needed revisions.
And, of course, we will have a Featured Speaker. This year it will be Board member Dr. Ginessa Mahar. Her presentation title is:

Friends, Feasts, and Fishes: Facilitating Ancient Gatherings within the Lower Suwannee Region
The topic is rooted in her archaeological research within the refuges and focuses on the fishing practices that supplied Shell Mound’s ancient gatherings.
 
There will also be Chat Rooms where we can gather in small groups for open discussion.

We look forward to receiving your sign-up emails and to seeing everyone at the meeting.
image collaage with Richards Island and fishes

February Butterfly of the Month

2/1/2021

 
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Friends of the Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges
P. O. Box 532
Cedar Key, FL 32625
[email protected]
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.


  • Home
    • Our Blog
  • About
    • About Friends >
      • Who We Are
      • What We Do
      • Current News
      • Contact Us
    • About the Refuges >
      • Our Refuges
      • Places of Interest
      • Hunting Brochure
    • Members
  • Join
    • Donate
  • Maps
    • Paddling Guides
    • Refuge Maps
    • Trail Brochures
    • Places of Interest
  • Vista
    • What is Vista
    • Friends' role
    • The Future
    • Cooks General Restoration
    • Window Restoration
    • Lumbering
  • Wildlife
    • Wildlife Gallery
  • Hunting
    • Overview
    • Maps
    • FWS Hunting Brochure
    • Alternative Mobility Permits
    • Hunter SignUp
  • Fishing
  • Junior Ranger
  • Search
  • Store