Restoration • Education • Preservation
Join MRC in Celebration of International Mangrove Day on Saturday, July 20. This educational and fun event at the Ted Moorhead Lagoon House will help raise awareness and funds to save our Indian River Lagoon.
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Join MRC’s Leesa Souto for a Lagoon-Friendly Grass Clippings and Fertilizing Presentation at Rockledge Gardens on Sunday, Feb. 10. Rain Barrel workshop follows the presentation.
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by Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel We may smell it first, warned environmentalist Rae Ann Wessel. She was right. Along a
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Join us for our October Brown Bag presentation with Laurilee Thompson, co-owner of Dixie Crossroads and creator of a recent seagrass nursery pilot project.
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Once upon a time, the Indian River Lagoon was the image of vacation snapshots and postcards. Lush mangroves lined the shore, while boats and docks floated above swaths of unbelievably clear water, as if suspended over the sandy, grassy bottom of the lagoon.
Read moreInterns wanted to assist the MRC in its efforts to save the Indian River Lagoon through the Living Shoreline Program. MRC is pleased to offer this opportunity with the goal of enhancing real world experiences for local college level students.
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MRC cares for 4,000 native mangrove plants in its mangrove restoration program. These plants will be transplanted along the IRL to provide nutrient uptake, wildlife habitat, storm protection, and erosion control.
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View presentations from the May 2014 Indian River Lagoon Action Assembly, coordinated by Marine Resources Council.
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MRC coordinated the May 2014 Lagoon Action Assembly involving over 100 community leaders in facilitated discourse about the collapse of the Indian River Lagoon.
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