Zachary A. Prusak, South Region Land Manager
Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) Program
5560 North U.S. Highway 1
Melbourne, Florida 32940
USA
(321) 255-4466
(321) 255-4499 fax
email: zprusak@brevardparks.com

     My primary responsibility with the EEL Program is to implement a prescribed fire program within our network of Sanctuaries. Much of the Program's land acquisition process is centered around conserving the unique Florida Scrub-jay and its associated threatened upland/wetland mix of ecosystems. Our knowledge of the arthropod diversity within our Sanctuaries is poor, so I invite all interested invertebrate biologists and researchers to explore our EEL Sanctuaries! My own exposure to ants began when I was two years old, and continues today with my interest in ant diversity studies and survey techniques. I also have the great pleasure of assisting Mark Deyrup with his much-anticipated Ants of the Southeast volume by providing him with ant locality records as I travel throughout Florida. I graduated from and am still affiliated with the University of Central Florida, and am always interested in exchanging ants in order to bolster the ant specimen section within the University of Central Florida Collection (UCFC) of arthropods.