The Wild Orange Grove Trail at Highlands Hammock State Park runs for only about three-fifths of a mile but goes through three distinct ecological areas. ...more

February 17, 2009

Back when row crops dominated the landscape along the shores of Cockroach Bay, there wasn't much there to attract birds winging their way toward South America for winter. ...more

December 31, 2008

Used to be, only the occasional crow alighted atop row crops planted along the edges of Cockroach Bay. ...more

December 27, 2008

Gathered by the Hillsborough River in a nook next to Blake High School, students recently helped Mayor Pam Iorio cut the ribbon on a $100,000 shoreline restoration project. ...more

December 3, 2008

Councilman Karl Nurse put in plants native to Florida and no longer needs to water the yard at an apartment building he owns. ...more

November 25, 2008

Hold the vinaigrette - that's not a giant bowl of salad sitting outside the library off Vonderburg Drive. A hardy bloom of water lettuce has infested Clayton Lake, and it may take some time to wilt the wily weed. ...more

October 1, 2008

That's not a giant bowl of salad sitting outside the library off Vonderburg Drive. A hardy bloom of water lettuce has infested Clayton Lake, and it may take some time to wilt the wily weed. ...more

September 30, 2008

Robert M. Tharin of Dunedin says Boy Scout who plant native vegetation around Dunedin lake comes from good family. ...more

February 8, 2008

James Garrison came early and stayed late. That's what often happens to leaders. In his Eagle Scout community project last month, 17-year-old James arrived an hour before his volunteers and closed up shop an hour after everyone else had called it a day. In December, James organized and led an effort to create additional wildlife habitat around Dunedin's Lake Paloma. The small lake is near San Christopher Drive and Bayshore Boulevard, northwest of the downtown area. ...more

January 26, 2008