What can you find in the bottom of the county's sinkholes? Just about anything, it turns out. ...more

May 30, 2008

At the big pit dubbed Rock Pond, you don't have to see the winged inhabitants to know they're there. ...more

May 21, 2008

At the big pit dubbed Rock Pond, you don't have to see the winged inhabitants to know they're there. ...more

May 21, 2008

It could have been a powerhouse, a labyrinth of ducts and pipes crowned by towering exhaust stacks, with coal-fired generators humming day and night. ...more

May 21, 2008

Environmental experts say the 2,400-acre site that had been earmarked for a Tampa Electric Co. plant is a powerhouse of a different sort – a natural one that pumps energy into Tampa Bay by producing clean water and fish. And it's being reclaimed for Mother Nature. ...more

May 20, 2008

When the tide is low, the Tampa Bay Watch group is on patrol, on a mission to remove derelict crab and fish traps from waters of Tampa Bay, hoping to save marine life. ...more

February 18, 2008

When the tide is low, the Tampa Bay Watch group is on patrol; on a mission to remove derelict traps from the waters of Tampa Bay, hoping to save marine life. ...more

February 16, 2008

When the tide is low, the Tampa Bay Watch group is on patrol; on a mission to remove derelict traps from the waters of Tampa Bay, hoping to save marine life. ...more

February 16, 2008

SEBRING — Few places in Florida nurse wild bald eagles back to health, but David Wrede said that Wrede's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center does that. He fixes their wings as well as owls, hawks and geese that are all native to the area. On the side, he even houses a few peacocks, cougars and a lone coyote. Although the three bald eagles at Wrede's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center couldn't be released because they had permanent injuries such as a blind right eye in "Thunder's" case, David Wrede said he was looking for volunteers to help some of the 600 to 1,000 other animals that go through the center each year so they can return to the wild. He and his wife Karen Wrede ran the rehab center at Wilderness Trail south of Sebring for more than 18 years, but David said that they had to slow down because of health problems and they've been focusing mostly on birds. He hoped the volunteers could help him expand the center's efforts with mammals and reptiles. ...more

February 12, 2008

Auto dealer Ernie Haire has requested a continuance of a public hearing to determine whether he can build a helicopter pad on his property at Keystone Lake. ...more

February 6, 2008