Among the VIPs who have come to the Manatee Viewing Center and the adjacent Florida Conservation and Technology Center over the past week, one of them feels so comfortable there he’s going to stay. No, he’s not among the Hillsborough County Commissioners who visited the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center (SYCC) at the Florida Conservation and Technology Center (FCTC) on Jan. 26. Commissioners Sandra Murman, Stacy White and Pat Kemp and…
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Open house Jan. 30, wide-open world of possibilities for the future at the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center
In Florida’s theme-park paradise, it can be easy to overlook the smaller attractions that focus on things like environmental education – places that make it fun to learn about the state’s unique and fascinating ecosystem while they immerse you in a lush habitat and offer great activities for people of all ages. Oh, and did we mention the new Florida Conservation and Technology Center (FCTC) also offers free admission? And…
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In natural Florida, building a bridge to a better habitat
Where were the volunteers? No sign of them from quiet Dickman Road in Apollo Beach. Did they vanish into the dense Florida wilderness? Pushing through the native scrub, clues were fleeting – signs of footprints, something resembling a trail. Wait. Amid the breeze in the branches and the calls of birds, the sound of conversation arose. Gradually it grew … until suddenly, there they were: Tampa Electric team members and…
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TECO team members gladly shell out their time to create a healthier habitat
Not far from the transmission towers over McKay Bay that bring reliable power from H.L. Culbreath Bayside Power Station to Tampa Electric customers, company team members from Bayside, Resource Planning and other volunteers brought power of another kind – environmental stewardship – to an effort beneath the gently lapping waves on April 15. Alongside the volunteers from TECO at DeSoto Park were others from Tampa Bay Watch. With the determined…
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A milestone of environmental stewardship expands to 100 acres
Just as Tampa Electric and partners pioneered a unique public-private partnership to restore Newman Branch Creek in Apollo Beach, TECO team members put the metaphorical cherry – native grasses, to be specific – on top. That was the scene on April 5 along a re-channeled estuary that soon will be teeming with fish and plant species that made the creek their home before development decades ago sealed it off from…
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