for citizens who care about Tampa Bay's growth management, transportation & environment
Dear friends of Florida’s wild places, As many of you know, funding for Florida Forever — our state’s conservation land-buying program — was recently eliminated from the state budget. You can help demonstrate public support for reinstating this pr…
It’s hard to imagine a worse place to build houses than smack in the middle of an AQUATIC preserve. Here’s this breathtakingly beautiful, skinny little spit (only 300 feet wide!) running out into the...
Saturday’s Tribune carries a passionate call to arms asking citizens to help save Egmont Key. Bay Soundings editor Mary Kelly Hoppe writes, “It’s time to call in the cavalry. Deliberations in Tallahassee may seal...
For years, the state allowed developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, as long as they “mitigated” for killing the tortoises by paying into a fund which was set up specifically to buy and manage...
Hillsborough County employs about 10,000 people, but, blaming budget cuts, county commissioners are poised to lay off the ONE guy responsible for protecting our wildlife from the bulldozers. If they adopt the budget with...