The Audubon Society's Florida Coastal Islands Sanctuaries will celebrate 75 years with an art exhibit featuring historical bird artwork by John James Audubon and modern large-scale water bird etchings of Tampa artist John Costin. ...more

April 1, 2009

It reads like something written yesterday. "Development or progress, so called, is destroying much of the habitat of all our wildlife at an alarming rate," reads the column that appeared in a local newspaper. "(T)he decrease in numbers of many of our most interesting members of the bird world is a sad thing to contemplate." ...more

February 27, 2009

A Tampa Bay area lawmaker has filed legislation that could stall or even stop Florida from sealing its historic deal with U.S. Sugar to purchase the Everglades for restoration. ...more

February 18, 2009

A Tampa-Bay lawmaker has filed legislation that could stall or even stop Florida from sealing its historic deal with U.S. Sugar to purchase the Everglades for restoration. ...more

February 17, 2009

DADE CITY Today's likely approval of a massive landfill in eastern Pasco County created a flurry of last-minute letter writing in recent days by environmental groups opposed to the plan. ...more

January 12, 2009

The potential approval of a household-waste landfill in southeastern Pasco County created a flurry of last-minute letter writing by environmental groups opposed to the proposal. ...more

January 10, 2009

The potential approval of a household-waste landfill south in eastern Pasco County created a flurry of last-minute letter writing by environmental groups opposed to the proposal. "This landfill represents an absolutely unacceptable risk to the region's water quality, not just in Pasco County, but throughout Tampa Bay and Florida's Nature Coast," Manley Fuller, president of the Florida Wildlife Federation said in a written statement. ...more

January 9, 2009

Florida's proposed purchase of thousands of acres of farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. to restore the Everglades would be jeopardized if a federal judge forces the state to resume construction on a huge reservoir, attorneys for the state said in court Tuesday. ...more

August 13, 2008

It was supposed to be a bill to protect seagrass, the underwater greenery that provides food for marine life and nurseries for juvenile fish. ...more

June 11, 2008

Here is the bottom line: Hometown Democracy is too extreme and, if passed, will ultimately result in a costly, ineffective attempt to address Florida's growth issues. ...more

January 16, 2008