Full-tilt pumping at wellfields in Pasco and Hillsborough counties will lower nearby lake levels and affect wetlands but likely won't bring a return to environmental damage seen before 2003, when the region's water supply relied solely on groundwater. ...more

March 29, 2009

Full-tilt pumping at wellfields in Pasco and Hillsborough counties will lower nearby lake levels and affect wetlands but likely won't bring a return to environmental damage seen before 2003, when the region's water supply relied solely on groundwater. ...more

March 28, 2009

Take time out to smell the wildflowers, admire new greenery on the cypress trees and delve into a discussion about pressing scientific questions about the natural landscape at Camp Bayou Outdoor Learning Center next month. ...more

February 24, 2009

Take time out to smell the wildflowers, admire the new greenery on the cypress trees and delve into a discussion about pressing scientific questions involving the natural landscape. ...more

February 18, 2009

Abby was just doing her job Sunday night, but the 20-month-old bloodhound was rewarded for finding a Westchase father and his young daughter who got lost in the woods. ...more

December 16, 2008

A Westchase father and his young daughter were found Sunday night by a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office bloodhound after the two had been reported missing, Hillsborough County deputies say. "They apparently got lost in the woods, and our bloodhound Abby tracked to them," a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office news release states. "They are cold, but safe." ...more

December 15, 2008

Maureen Mobley isn't shy about touting the merits of Townes on the Green at Lake Bernadette, Mobley Homes' newest town home community off State Road 54 in Pasco County. ...more

October 26, 2008

Yellow Jacket Campground: A large, wooded riverfront campground, Yellow Jacket has a bath house, laundry facilities and heated swimming pool, and picnic tables and fire rings at each site and cabin. It's about 140 miles north of Tampa. ...more

August 24, 2008

Yellow Jacket Campground: A large, wooded riverfront campground, Yellow Jacket has a bath house, laundry facilities and heated swimming pool, and picnic tables and fire rings at each site and cabin. It's about 140 miles north of Tampa. ...more

August 23, 2008

On a boardwalk in the wild Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, a visitor recently stepped on a slick spot of something, possibly bird droppings, and slipped and fell. She got up and filed a lawsuit against the National Audubon Society, owner of the sanctuary east of Naples. ...more

June 20, 2008