If everyone in Wisconsin came to Tampa Electric’s free Manatee Viewing Center and brought a few friends, what would they say? Maybe something like: “Wow! You mean this place is free?! It’s incredible! And there’s way more than manatees!” Since 1986, 6 million people – about equal to the entire population of Wisconsin – have experienced free Florida beauty at its finest at our Manatee Viewing Center. On Feb. 22,…
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Habitat trail at the Manatee Viewing Center
The trail in environmental stewardship that the Manatee Viewing Center has blazed since 1986 is one that you can enjoy at ground-level. November 1 marks the opening of the center’s coastal habitat trail, a mulched path that winds eight-tenths of a mile through saltern, coastal high marsh and coastal strand habitats. Like the MVC, it’s free to the public and showcases a variety of plant and animal life. And like…
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Ten reasons (among many) why you should come to the 30th anniversary/5 millionth visitor celebration at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center on Thursday, March 16
If it’s in your nature to enjoy yourself, we humbly suggest you enjoy yourself in our nature – Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center – this Thursday, March 16. We’re celebrating our 30th season as a showcase of free, fun, environmental education, along with the fact that we’ve welcomed more than 5 million visitors since we opened in 1986. And we’d love to see you there. Below are 10 reasons that…
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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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Blue shirts, green backdrop: TECO volunteers continue to restore Newman Branch Creek
Across hundreds of acres of Tampa Electric-owned land south of the company’s Manatee Viewing Center – an area known as Newman Branch Creek and the site of the Florida Conservation and Technology Center, currently under construction – vegetation grows in abundance without help. Unfortunately, a lot of that vegetation is highly invasive, non-native Brazilian pepper. But thanks to TECO volunteers, many in their blue Volunteer T-shirts, the area now has…
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