Joe Reinman, Supervisory Wildlife Biologist at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, retired in December, 2021 after 43 years of service. In the videos below Joe talks about the highlights of his career protecting and restoring habitat and endangered species.
In 43 years Joe covered a lot of important ground and has interesting stories to tell. They are presented here in bite size videos which are informative and enjoyable. (note: the white band on the Longleaf Pine behind Joe indicates that the tree has a Red-cockaded Woodpecker nest.)
video 1 - Early Years and Longleaf Pines
In this video Joe talks about how he got started and how he came to settle at St. Marks. Toward the end of this clip he talks about his important contribution to the restoration of Longleaf Pines
video 2 -The St. Marks Intern Program
Working to save the endangered Frosted Flatwoods Salamander was labor intensive and prompted the recruitment of young talented interns. This was the beginning in 2014 of the highly successful intern program at St. Marks
video 3 - Endangered species - Red-cockaded Woodpeckers
This segment tells about the effort to restore Red-cockaded Woodpeckers to St. Marks. Joe tells about banding, artifical nest boxes and translocation.
video 4 - Land Acquisition
Joe helped expand the Florida National Scenic Trail on the Refuge and wrote and protection plans.
video 5 - St. Marks Impoundments
Joe talks about the Impoundment System which originated when the Refuge was established in 1931 as a waterfowl refuge.
