We had a great extended 2018 Thanksgiving weekend at the Big Bend Wildlands Preserve
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve We had a great visit with our botanist friends David Gorchov and Vivian Negron Ortiz in late Jan, 2018. Thanks for helping us with plant identifications!
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Nick, Evie, Donna Selah, Holly McCollum with Noelle at the property in Jan 2017. — with Donna McCollum and Holly McCollum.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Some of our family visiting the property in late Feb, 2018.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Joanne, Paul,Donna McCollum, Katie Lazdowski, Artie and grandson Gil on the Cottonmouth Alley boardwalk, Jan 2018.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve My handsome sons Blake and Adam Cummins, March 2016. It was a pleasure showing you around.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve A beautiful sunny day in March, 2016. Thanks for coming to visit us! — with Donna McCollum, Jocelynne Ann and Taylor Pittard.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve A beautiful spring day, March 2016. — with Taylor Pittard, Jocelynne Ann and Hays Cummins.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve My sons Blake and Adam Cummins, March 2016. — with Adam Cummins.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna, granddaughter Evie on her shoulders and Holly McCollum with granddaughter Noelle taking a hike in January 2017.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna pounding in a support post on the Cypress Grove boardwalk, March 2017.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna McCollum showing Jocelynne Ann and Taylor the homesite, March 2016
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Hays Cummins on one of our firebreaks
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Relaxing on the Cypress Grove platform, March 2017.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve What a great time we had with a surprise Christmas holiday visit from Kyle Sauerbrunn and Jack, December 2015
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Talor, Jocelynne, and Donna, March 2016
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna McCollum and Hays Cummins at the NE corner of the wetland
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Looking for Sundew carnivorous plants with Jocelynne, Taylor and Donna, March 2016
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Shane Wellendorf, Conservation Coordinator and Tim McGorty, Land Conservancy Director, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy, visited our property in August, 2014.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve We enjoyed your Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy Jan 2018 site visit Kim! It's been a pleasure working with you!
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna McCollum with Jocelynne Ann and Taylor admire a huge pine tree near the the homesite, March 2016.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna with Mark and Linda Slager Boardman in the oak-scrub forest, late Jan 2018. It was so much fun showing you around.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Nick McCollum and grandkids Selah and Evie, Jan 2017.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Scrub-Oak forest, Donna and Hays, March 2014
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Katie, Gil, Artie, Paul & JoAnne, Cottonmouth Alley boardwalk, Jan 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve My wonderful sons Blake and Adam Cummins along the southern shore of our giant freshwater wetland, March 2016.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Hays & Donna, April 2015
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Joanne, Donna, Katie, Artie, grandson Gil visit our place, Jan 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve The best neighbors ever! Thanks for all of your care and help Virginia and Tommy!
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Hays and Donna
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Scrub-Oak forest, Donna and Nick, March 2014
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Ana, James and Hays relaxing after working hard on building the Cypress Grove Observation Platform, March 2017.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Nick and Hays, March 2014
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Thanks for a great visit, Linda and Mark!
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna and Nick examining one of our special natural areas, March 2014
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Nick, Evie and proud grandmother Donna enjoying the oak-scrub forest, Jan 2017.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Such a zest for life! April 2015
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Hays looking over the wetlands on a summer day
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna using our neighbor’s “pea sheller” to shell half of a five gallon bucket of peas in 10 minutes. Thanks Virginia and Tommy Aman!
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna McCollum and Tommy Aman on Cottonmouth Alley boardwalk, June 24, 2018. Tommy grew up exploring the wetland behind him. He and Virginia Aman have made the world of difference as friends and also in faciliatating our environmental stewardship of the Big Bend Wildlands Preserve! Thank you to the both of you!
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Our wonderful neighbor Tommy Aman is clearing out a small area in the NE corner of the property for a bird blind that overlooks the wetland but is invisible to others, late June 2018.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve4 We've built two bird observation boardwalks in the last year-Cypress Grove and Cottonmouth Alley. The next project is a bird blind in the NE corner of the property. None of this would have been possible without Tommy Aman's expertise on his tractor. Thank you! June 27, 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve We have a boat! On Sunday, June 30, 2018 we took the boat on it's maiden voyage at the mouth of the Aucilla River in St Marks National Wildlife Refuge.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Tommy is an artist on the tractor! Incredibly skilled! June 27, 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve I took a "selfie" to show Donna McCollum the bird blind location after Tommy Aman removed the large bushes obscuring the view. June 27, 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve ome of the most stunning scrub-oak forests are located in the NE corner of the property, photo taken June 22, 2018.
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Tommy standing in front of the area that he opened with his tractor for the future positioning of the bird blind. June 27, 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve We've built two bird observation boardwalks in the last year-Cypress Grove and Cottonmouth Alley. The next project is a bird blind in the NE corner of the property. None of this would have been possible without Tommy Aman's expertise on his tractor. Thank you! June 27, 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Wetland Views, Summer 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve At Cottonmouth Alley boardwalk with our wonderful neighbor and fellow nature lovers, Tommy and Virginia Aman August 14, 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Tommy Aman overlooking the huge wetland which has over 22 inches more of water than in January 2018! Aug 14, 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Cottonmouth Alley Boardwalk
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna McCollum smiles most of the time in the scrub-oak forests! June 22, 2018
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Donna McCollum on her first visit to the property, August 2012. We were in the NE corner. I think that she liked it! —
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve The 2015 Land Trust Alliance Annual Report did a short piece on our property--"Look What We Did..".
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Tommy and Donna McCollum getting ready to take down a dead tree that looked like it might fall on the barn!
Stewards & Visitors to Big Bend Wildlands Preserve Thank you Tommy and Virginia Aman for your wonderful hospitality, conversation and help over the 2018 Thanksgiving holiday! What a fine weekend it was!
