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| Community Stepping Stones One Waterway - One Tampa Bay |
$4,940.00 |
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At-risk teens from organizations in Hillsborough County will participate in several clean-up events. Trash collected from the clean-ups will be incorporated into a mural that will be displayed at several high-traffic areas. Teens will learn how their community connects to the river and how what happens upstream eventually ends up downstream. | |
| Hillsborough River Watershed Alliance Frog Listening Network Display Expansion at Lowry Park Zoo |
$5,000.00 |
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The Hillsborough River Watershed Alliance (HRWA) will update an existing display at the Lowry Park Zoo. The updated area will include information on frogs and toads as indicators of the health of the environment. Additionally, Zoo docents will be trained to identify frogs and toads by sound and sight and collect listening data for a national database. | |
| Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful Keep Our School Beautiful Chapter Expansions |
$2,300.00 |
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This grant will expand the popular Keep Our Schools Beautiful chapters to include several other high schools in Hillsborough County. Directed environmental education along with hands-on clean-up projects will raise awareness of environmental issues and encourage stewardship. | |
| Robinson Elementary School Grow - Learn - Teach - Reach |
$2,390.00 |
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Grant funding will provide for 5th-grade students at Robinson Elementary School to attend field trips to Crystal Springs Preserve and Lettuce Lake to learn about Bay issues and habitats. Back at school, the 5th graders will create lessons, booklets and a Florida native butterfly garden and teach the lower classes using the gardens and PowerPoint presentations they created. | |
| Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center Mann-Wagnon Landscape Guide |
$1,668.19 |
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The Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center will create an attractive landscape using Florida native plants and a bulletin board educational sign to direct visitors to the different areas and plants located within the park. Visitors will be asked to fill in a short questionnaire to determine effectiveness of plants and signage. | |
| Hillsborough Head Start Community Foundation, Inc. Natural Beginnings to Butterfly Endings - Upland Gardens Project |
$2,000.00 |
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Economically disadvantaged preschool-aged children and their parents will help to create two butterfly gardens using native plant species. Parents will also be asked to attend classes about water conservation and chemical-free gardening. At the end of the school year, parents will be allowed to take the plants back to their communities and/or yards. | |
Manatee County
| Around the Bend Nature Tours, LLC Estuary Encounters for Manatee Schools |
$4,800.00 |
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More than 350 students from Kindergarten through 8th grade will participate in hands-on activities at Emerson Point Preserve. Younger children will be learning how their actions affect wildlife using crabs as examples while middle-schoolers participate in mangrove walks and dip netting. Teachings will follow Sunshine State Standards while focusing on the connection to the watershed and Tampa Bay. | |
| Clerk of the Court of Manatee County Courthouse Case Study: A Model for Sustainable Landscaping |
$4,663.80 |
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Working with the County Parks and Recreation Department and other local organizations, volunteers will install Florida native plants with accompanying signage around the Manatee County Courthouse in an effort to educate visitors about native plants and environmental landscaping practices. | |
| Eckerd College Population Estimation of Wild Hogs using the Mark, Re-sight Method |
$475.93 |
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Wild hogs in Terra Ceia Preserve will be marked with paint and surveyed several times to determine behavior patterns. Wild hogs have caused severe damage to habitats within the Preserve. Data from the hog sightings will be used to help determine population estimates of the hog population within the Preserve. | |
| Florida West Coast RC&D Council Walking the Talk on the Farm |
$4,240.00 |
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Full and half-day workshops will be held at Gamble Creek Farm to educate farmers in Best Management Practices for water conservation, successful use of tailwater recovery, reclaimed water, micro-irrigation and hydroponics. Science teachers' workshops will incorporate sustainable agriculture methods into their curriculum. | |
| Manatee School for the Arts Marine Biology Education and Environmental Stewardship Program |
$4,935.00 |
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Economically disadvantaged students (49% of school population) will participate in various community involvement projects such as salt marsh restoration nurseries, building oyster domes, invasive species removal, water testing, coastal clean-ups and community-based trips in Manatee and Pinellas counties. Students will learn the effects of phosphates and fertilizer on habitats and gain environmental knowledge. | |
Pinellas County
| Canterbury School of Florida Bay Education and Restoration Project |
$5,000.00 |
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Students at Canterbury and Academy Prep schools will create a custom salt marsh grass nursery and learn how the plants act as natural filters to clean the water. This natural aquaculture system will also support red drum, on loan from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The project also includes planting events at Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve. | |
| Friends of Fort De Soto, Inc. Fort De Soto Shorebird Education Kiosk |
$2,500.00 |
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A project spearheaded by a local Girl Scout will create a kiosk to highlight information about nesting shorebirds near the bird sanctuary on North Beach. The kiosk will contain photos taken by the Girl Scout as well as a "talk box" containing recordings of bird calls and additional information so visitors can learn the importance of protecting nesting and migrating bird habitats without disturbing them. | |
| Jungle Terrace Civic Association, Inc. 5th Annual Parks Clean-Up |
$ 2,687.00 |
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The Jungle Terrace Civic Association will work with the City, County and other local organizations to clean up areas around Jungle Lake, Abercrombie Park and along the Pinellas Trail. Volunteers will remove invasive plants and clean up trash in and around the park areas. | |
| Nature's Academy Island Adventure Pilot Project |
$5,000.00 |
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Children in 5th grade classes will participate in nature walks, dip netting and a coastal clean-up at Fort De Soto Park. Students are administered a pre/post test to assess prior knowledge and measured learning of environmental topics. Keep Pinellas Beautiful will document the total amount of trash collected by the students. | |
| Pinellas County Board of County Commission for Parks and Conserv. Walsingham Park Wetlands Invasive Exotic Plant Control |
$5,000.00 |
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This two-phased project includes hands-on community involvement, educational signage and invasive exotic plant removal to improve habitat and water quality within the Walsingham watershed. | |
| Seminole Middle School (Environmental Club) Native Plant Beautification Project |
$4,095.00 |
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The Environmental Club will create a sustainable landscape design that will restore public school property to a "living model" that demonstrates environmental value. Native plantings will promote environmental literacy and inquiry-based science activities and engage students, faculty, staff and parents about the connection between the community and the watershed. | |
| Tampa Bay Watch Hands-On Service Learning through Coastal Habitat Restoration |
$4,875.00 |
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Students and teachers from local schools will attend a field trip to Tampa Bay Watch's Marine Education Center and be involved in service-learning restoration efforts such as salt marsh grass planting for shoreline restoration, construction of oyster domes and oyster shell reef and planting of sea oats and dune sunflower to enhance habitats. | |
| The Shores of Long Bayou Homeowners Association, Inc. Restoration of No-Name Retention Pond at The Shores of Long Bayou |
$4,800.00 |
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The project will remove muck settled in the retention pond, removal of invasive plants along the pond shoreline and planting of native plants. The No-Name pond drains into a larger retention pond which has recently undergone restoration. Participants will be recruited from within the neighborhood to participate in the restoration efforts. | |
| Council of Neighborhood Associations of S. Pinellas Co. (CONA) Booker Creek Habitat Restoration at Campbell Park |
$5,000.00 |
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CONA will recruit volunteers from a local school and university to remove invasive plants along Booker Creek and re-plant with native plants. Project includes two-day planting event, trash clean-up, and signage. | |
Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas Counties
| Keep Pinellas Beautiful Adopt an Island |
$4,760.00 |
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Keep Pinellas Beautiful will work with organized groups to adopt spoil islands within Tampa Bay in an effort to keep them clean and help eradicate invasive plants. Project also includes signs, garbage cans, bags and litter pickers to the groups adopting the island to facilitate cleaning. | |
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