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NEED MORE INFORMATION! Ralph Jowett (left) and Leonard Wood in front of 4,000 sq ft of heart pine flooring that they donated.

Thanks to the Plum Creek Foundation, the first stakeholder to make a major gift toward restoration of the Austin Cary Forest Learning Center. Officials from Plum Creek, the largest forestland owner in the USA and Florida and long-time SFRC cooperator met with UF/IFAS leaders on the prepared site for the new building to present this […]

Immediately after the building burned a Building Restoration Planning Committee was formed comprised of faculty, staff, architects and planners. The committee was charged with learning from users in the last few years the answer to three critical questions for planning a new building. What did you like about the building? What were the deficiencies in […]

On Tuesday July 19, 2011, a fire at the Austin Cary Forest completely consumed our SFRC Conference Building and all of its contents. Built in 1986, the Conference Center had been used by SFRC students, faculty, and friends and also by the broader community in Gainesville and North Florida. Every year more than 7,000 people […]