Family sedans, minivans, SUVs and cars from all across America and Canada – hundreds of thousands of visitors come to Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center each year in vehicles of all kinds. A handful of visitors, meanwhile, come to the center in moving vans: manatees. On Jan. 28 and 29 they arrived again, the latest in what’s become an annual ritual that sees rehabilitated manatees released into the wild to…
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Blue shirts, green backdrop: TECO volunteers continue to restore Newman Branch Creek
Across hundreds of acres of Tampa Electric-owned land south of the company’s Manatee Viewing Center – an area known as Newman Branch Creek and the site of the Florida Conservation and Technology Center, currently under construction – vegetation grows in abundance without help. Unfortunately, a lot of that vegetation is highly invasive, non-native Brazilian pepper. But thanks to TECO volunteers, many in their blue Volunteer T-shirts, the area now has…
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