The Scrub Crew aims to keep the Ocala National Forest free of illegally dumped trash. Members were recently honored by the county commission.

Seiler said the Ocala National Forest has always been referred to as the Big Scrub. So Scrub Crew seems like a natural name for the team. Litter investigations start with tips, reports, or even an ...

President Teddy Roosevelt understood the value of the Ocala National Forest's "Big Scrub." A hundred years ago, on Nov. 24, 1908, he signed a bill formally establishing the forest.

Ocala National Forest in North Central Florida is full of outdoor opportunities for a variety of recreation. Within its 387,000 acres, visitors can swim in springs, hike part of the Florida Trail ...

You cannot see all of Ocala National Forest in one day. Indeed, it’s difficult enough to just drive through in one day without stopping. Ocala National Forest is meant to be explored, and the… ...

Tree cover loss in the Ocala National Forest spiked in 2006 and 2009. In 2006, a prescribed fire in the Juniper Prairie raged out of control and into sand pine areas. The resulting fires burned ...

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"Ocala National Forest holds the largest and one of the last remaining contiguous pieces of habitat called sandpine scrub," Carrie Sekerak, deputy district ranger for the U.S. Forest Service ...

My father was born in 1900 on Lake Halford in the Electra community on the west side of the Big Scrub that didn't become the Ocala National Forest until 1908, one of the first national forests ...

President Teddy Roosevelt understood the value of the Ocala National Forest's "Big Scrub." A hundred years ago, on Nov. 24, 1908, he signed a bill formally establishing the Forest.

Motorists heading east on State Road 40 past Mill Dam might notice that the road begins to rise and fall in ridges. Soon there is no escaping the fact that some of the ridges are quite steep and ...