The federal government owns about 1,700 acres in Highlands County and is asking for public input on how to best manage the property at a meeting tonight. ...more

September 25, 2008

EAST LAKE - Pinellas County officials' plan to designate 900 acres of the Brooker Creek Preserve for a future water treatment facility has drawn fire from environmentalists and others. At a Tuesday night's town hall meeting at the Brooker Creek Preserve Education Center, county land management and utilities officials presented a revised management plan for the 8,000-plus-acre county-owned preserve. ...more

June 14, 2008

The founder and operator of the controversial Horseshoe Creek Wildlife Sanctuary is in trouble again. Darryl Atkinson, 51, of Davenport, was arrested Friday on fraud charges. An undercover state wildlife officer, posing as someone who needed to work off community service hours, went to the sanctuary and asked Atkinson for work, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. ...more

February 2, 2008

The most common type of gorilla is 'critically endangered,' one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released this week by the World Conservation Union. ...more

September 14, 2007