The leader of the expedition that earlier this year traversed the length of Florida in 100 days talked about the expedition last night to a standing-room-only crowd at USF's St. Petersburg campus. Carlton Ward says he's making progress on his mission to connect the state's disjointed wild areas.
More than 200 people attended one of the first lectures that Ward has given since the end of his Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. He regaled the crowd with photographs of the three-month mission to publicize the need to connect the state's natural lands while it's still undeveloped.
But his mission isn't over - some of the guiding hands of the expedition are meeting Friday at Archbold Biological Station on the Lake Wales Ridge - one of the expedition's stops. Ward says it will include people from various environmental groups and federal and state wildlife services.
"They're all gathering to talk about what's next and how we can utilize this public awareness effort that we've started with the Florida Wildlife Corridor," he says, "and implement it and take steps toward making it real."
Ward will also display some of his photographs from the expedition for two months beginning October 4th at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota.
