Our Special Guest will be Miami-Dades’ Joy Klein speaking about Pine Rockland Restoration and the numerous successful projects around Miami to preserve and restore the dwindling Rocklands’ Habitats.
Arborist Joy Klein is a 29 year veteran of the Miami-Dade County's Division of Environmental Resources. She received her BS in botany with a minor in forest ecology in 1982 from the University of Michigan and went from there to serve in the Peace Corps in Jamaica where she worked in hurricane ravaged forests conducting inventories for watershed protection, national park boundaries and was curator of the plant collections for the Royal Botanical Gardens. After returning to the US, Joy worked with their flowering trees and endangered species collections at Fairchild Tropical Gardens. In 1987, Joy left Fairchild to work as a tree/wetland biologist for the county . Most of her job responsibilities included regulation of natural resources, as well as working with the County’s Environmentally Endangered lands program of which she is still involved with. Most of her work lately has been with environmental education of natural resources and is the creator and coordinator of the County's Adopt a Tree program which has given away over 186,000 trees in the past 15 years. In June 2003, Joy received the "Outstanding Profession Award" from combined groups of the Florida Arborist Society, the Florida Division of Forestry, the Florida Urban Forestry Council, and the University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service. She is an internationally certified arborist and in 2008 completed the Canopy cover analysis of Miami-Dade County with Dr. Ecobedo of the University of Florida In 2012 Joy received the Tropical Audubon Board Appreciation award foe her commitment, persistence and toll if cultivate and sow environmental stewardship Protection and restoration of forest and trees in Miami-Dade County. In 2014 the County’s community image advisory Board recognized Joy with the crown leadership award.
Joy Klein speaking about Pine Rocklands Preservation and Restoration. How can the Ram/UM Site be restored and returned to Mother Nature rather being turned into yet another high density Strip Mall/Walmart??
We’ll also be updating our latest Campaigns and Special Event Planning for the Fall.
If you haven't seen them lately, the burned areas of the Richmond Pine Rocklands are slowly coming back, and as the rainy season progresses, should see even more new growth.
See Ya on the 13th.
Al Sunshine
President
Miami Pine Rocklands Coalition.
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