The Southwest Florida Water Management District will be conducting "controlled, prescribed burns" during November and December on the Jack Creek property in Highlands County. ...more

November 10, 2009

Controlled burns are scheduled for August and September on protected lands in Pasco and Hernando counties. ...more

July 30, 2009

Southwest Florida Water Management District will be conducting controlled, prescribed burns in November and December on 150 acres of land. ...more

November 17, 2008

Protective buffers and better public access for wilderness parks were among ideas floated last week when local residents met to discuss a growth plan for the southwest corner of Hillsborough County. ...more

July 16, 2008

At E.G. Simmons Park, contract workers scale towering Australian pines and lop off limbs before felling the trees and feeding them to an industrial-sized wood chipper. ...more

July 12, 2008

First, it was too dry. Then it was too wet. Bill Carlisle would like to set the wilds on fire, but Mother Nature isn't cooperating. ...more

July 12, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners will hold a public hearing Wednesday on whether to schedule a Nov. 4 referendum that will decide whether to continue the county's taxpayer-funded environmentally sensitive land-buying program first approved more than 20 years ago. ...more

July 11, 2008

a lot more. ...more

May 30, 2008

In effort reduce the potential for future wildfires, the Florida Division of Forestry will be igniting prescribed burns within northern portions of the Brooker Creek Preserve either Saturday or Sunday. ...more

February 22, 2008

Don't be too surprised to smell smoke or see fire in two natural areas this month. ...more

December 6, 2007