To the Editor: The health of Lemon Bay is important to us all and each month volunteers monitor the water quality at sites from Alligator Creek in Ven...
Coral Creek convergence newest acquisition for CHPSP
■ STAFF REPORT The Florida Department of Environmental Protection announces the permanent protection of the 55.7-acre Coral Creek Peninsula as an addi...
Little information available about $1 million that would have gone to Gasparilla Island State Park
BY JACK SHORT – An item stricken from the 2015-2016 Florida budget that would have sent $1 million to the Gasparilla Island State Park contained...
Fallout from Scott’s veto pen hits Gasparilla Island
BY JACK SHORT – Among the record setting number of items, worth a combined $461 million, that fell to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s veto pen, wa...
Want to experience the estuaries up close?
BY JACK SHORT – Sometimes, to understand something, you have to be willing to dive right in. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection ...