The effort to preserve Cone Ranch has become a muddled debate about bond covenants, fair-market value and the transfer of assets from one county agency to another. ...more

December 28, 2009

Regarding "Water department denies access to Cone Ranch," (The Tampa Tribune, Dec. 15): Recently, Hillsborough County Water Resource Services (WRS) was contacted by a Pinellas County resident who wanted permission for a group to conduct a birding study at Cone Ranch. We would like the opportunity to provide several pieces of key information that were missing from the article. ...more

December 27, 2009

Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay the highest price possible to transfer Cone Ranch from one Hillsborough County department to another, a member of a county commission-appointed panel on the ranch's future contends. ...more

December 26, 2009

Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay the highest price possible to transfer Cone Ranch from one county department to another, a member of a county commission-appointed panel on the ranch's future contends. ...more

December 23, 2009

The 12,800-acre Cone Ranch will someday be part of Hillsborough County's conservation lands program, county commissioners decided Wednesday. ...more

December 17, 2009

Proving the value of the Cone Ranch property and why Hillsborough County should restore and protect it requires leg work, some say. ...more

December 15, 2009

The Hillsborough County Water Resource Services Department, which controls the Cone ranch property, is denying public access, citing a lack of staff to accompany visitors. ...more

December 14, 2009

After years of greeting its customers out of leased space in the Brandon Crossings Shopping Center, Hillsborough County Water Resource Services finally has a home of its own. ...more

December 9, 2009

Environmental activists won a huge victory recently when an advisory panel recommended that county-owned Cone Ranch stay in public ownership under the county's conservation lands program. ...more

November 28, 2009

An advisory panel recommended Monday that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 17, 2009