Next time you're thinking there's nothing you can do for the environment, think about the eight students in Friends For Florida. ...more

October 25, 2009

The next time you're thinking there's nothing you can do for the environment, think about the eight students in Friends for Florida. ...more

October 21, 2009

More than 200 volunteers removed 880 pounds of trash and debris from the Fort De Soto county park near Tierra Verde last week. ...more

September 26, 2009

More than 200 volunteers packed into Fort DeSoto County Park Saturday to remove 880 pounds of discarded trash and debris. ...more

September 23, 2009

Fort De Soto Park is about to become cleaner. The nonprofit group Tampa Bay Watch is hosting a midsummer cleanup at Fort De Soto Park from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in partnership with WTSP, Channel 10, and Keep Pinellas Beautiful. ...more

July 9, 2009

On a warm afternoon in view of downtown Tampa, about 50 people gathered at Ballast Point Park to pay tribute to their friend, family member and fellow fisherman. ...more

April 22, 2009

Community volunteers are revving their airboat engines for another day of service, planning to remove abandoned crab traps threatening marine life in Cockroach Bay. ...more

January 22, 2009

Community volunteers are revving their airboat engines for another day of service, planning to remove abandoned crab traps threatening marine life in Cockroach Bay. ...more

January 20, 2009

The National Football League, as part of what it calls "the greening of Super Bowl XLIII," is providing mangroves for plantings in the Terra Ceia Ecosystem Restoration Area near the Manatee County line and native trees at the McKay Creek Greenway in Pinellas County. ...more

December 9, 2008

It's time for the body count. Volunteers will fan out to some 50 islands in Tampa Bay on Saturday to harvest discarded fishing line. They will also be documenting the number of dead birds they find, victims of fishing line spider-webbed across mangroves where birds nest and roost. ...more

October 24, 2008