"Tampa's first City zoo began around 1937 as an animal shelter in Plant Park on the banks of the Hillsborough River near downtown. It was started by city employees and originally consisted of a small collection of indigenous animals such as raccoons, alligators and an aviary with a variety ...
Modules were placed as “reefs” near the mean low water line (MLW) into groups of three, each reef being separated by 2 m to reduce the risk of stranding marine mammals as required by federal permits (Figure 4). Each unit of the reef was spaced about 5 cm apart to allow the growth...
About an hour south of Tampa is Anna Maria Island, home to one of the best Florida beaches for families. Anna Maria Island is quite large and includes the well-known Bradenton Beach and Holmes Beach, both busier but still gorgeous beaches. For a quieter family experience, head to the town...
Mount Dora nursery with medical marijuana license sells for $14 million A nursery in Florida’s medical marijuana industry just sold its Mount Dora location to a real estate investment trust based in New York, according to a report in GrowthSpotter. According to a recently filed deed in Lake ...
The first phase of the plan got under way in late 2009, when work was started along the Tamiami Trail (a highway along the northern boundary of the national park between Tampa and Miami) to convert a small portion of the roadbed embankment (which acts as a levee) near Miami to a ...
Ley JA, McIvor CC, Peebles EB, Rolls H (2010) Defining fish nursery habitats: an application of otolith elemental fin- gerprinting in Tampa Bay, Florida. In: Cooper ST (ed) Proc Tampa Bay Area Scientific Information Symp, BASIS 5. Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, St. Petersburg, FL...