There were a few who didn't want to get their feet muddy, but most of the 19 youngsters from Riverview's Center Academy were happy to plunge into a restoration project at Newman Branch Creek near the Big Bend Power Station on May 12. ...more

May 20, 2009

A gaggle of young volunteers who'd never heard of black rush grass spent Friday morning plugging it into the shoreline of a freshwater pond near Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station. ...more

March 29, 2009

A gaggle of young volunteers who'd never heard of black rush grass spent this morning plugging it into the shoreline of a freshwater pond near the Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station. They learned that restoration is a fix for environmental damage perpetrated by human activity, like fish farming, ditching and agriculture. They planted grasses to stabilize the shoreline and held horseshoe crabs and other creatures that live in and around Newman Branch Creek. ...more

March 27, 2009

Their work makes a difference - along the shoreline of Tampa Bay and further inland. ...more

March 25, 2009