Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation & Conservation Department is conducting a prescribed burn today at Camp Bayou Nature Preserve ...more

September 9, 2008

Dolly Cummings peered out the window of her Camp Bayou office Aug. 9, checking the skies for any sign of a letup. As volunteers pulled in, one by one, Mother Nature just wasn't cooperating. ...more

August 20, 2008

Things To Do is a list of some interesting upcoming events. For a complete list of Tampa Bay area events, see this week's Friday Extra. ...more

July 30, 2008

Dolly Cummings, John Smith and Mary Ann Wilhelm all share the same goal: They want to be the honorary mayor of Ruskin. ...more

July 5, 2008

The board of the Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center recently met to elect it newest directors, who will serve three year terms: Bill Richards, a resident of Kings Point; and Rolf Sulzberger and Barbara Van Eycken, both of Sun City Center. ...more

July 3, 2008

Local paleontologist Frank Garcia celebrated another feather in his cap Friday: A miniature sea cow that swam the seas of Central Florida 5 million years ago will bear his name in the history books. ...more

June 28, 2008

Two final days of the Camp Bayou free Family Naturalist Program will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, addressing the topic "What lives beneath our feet and what is a keystone species" - and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, for a watershed celebration, at Camp Bayou Outdoor Learning Center, 4140 24th St. S.E. ...more

June 25, 2008

Forty-three adults and children sketched, wrote poetry and made crafts at the free Awesome Art in Nature event April 26 at Camp Bayou Outdoor Learning Center in conjunction with the SouthShore Regional Library's Crawford Art Studio. ...more

May 28, 2008

Cypress Creek Elementary School teachers and students worked a bit of magic May 15 for the school's last family night event. ...more

May 24, 2008

Camp Bayou was the site of a plein air workshop Feb. 7. "Though the weather forecast was rain, nearly 20 outdoor painting enthusiasts participated," said Dolly Cummings, nature center education director. ...more

February 20, 2008