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Bay Mini-Grants
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| Brazilian Pepper Eradication Pilot Program Ballast Point Neighborhood Association Melanie Higgins |
$9,985.00 |
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This is a special criteria grant.
The Ballast Point Neighborhood Association, in partnership with Quest Ecology, Tampa Preparatory School's Environmental Club and the City of Tampa, will remove invasive Brazilian pepper trees in the neighborhood located immediately north of MacDill Air Force Base. | |
| Brandon Christian Community School Alafia River Study Maria Bristow |
$500.00 |
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This is a teacher support grant.
Students in the 5th through 8th grade will visit sites along the Alafia River to assess water quality, salinity and invertebrates at each site. The resulting data will be organized and reported to the preschool through 4th grade classes. | |
| Congregation Beth Am Wetland Habitat Restoration and Butterfly Garden Congregation Beth Am Sheryl Bowman |
$500.00 |
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This is a teacher support grant.
Congregation Beth Am plans to restore a one-acre wetland pond which has recently been dredged and retrofitted as a stormwater pond. The Congregation will remove invasive plants and replant with native and aquatic plant species. The younger students in the school will plant and maintain an upland butterfly garden. | |
| Living Downstream: Monitoring the Waterways Hillsborough Community College, Institute of Florida Studies Matthew Freedman |
$5,971.45 |
| This program will provide an opportunity for high school students, college students and community groups to learn about water quality issues impacting Tampa Bay and its tributaries. Water quality monitoring stations will be established at the English Creek and the Cockroach Bay Environmental Study Centers, and data collected will help determine suitable restoration projects at both sites. | |
| Florida Native Plant Nursery Learning Gate Community School Kimberly Sutton |
$500.00 |
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This is a teacher support grant.
Middle school students at Learning Gate School will partner with local organizations to grow native Florida plants as part of their Environmental Research and Environmental Health class. Mature plants will be transplanted at local area parks as part of restoration projects. | |
| Eso EA! (That's It!) Environmental Stewardship Project Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Bay Jennifer Bacon |
$7,000.00 |
| Lowry Park will partner with the Florida Institute for Community Studies to bring a largely underserved population of south Hillsborough County to the Zoo to participate in the Wetland Connections program. The program teaches how the health of the Hillsborough River is important to the area's people, plants and animals. | |
| Mini-Reef Habitat Restoration at the Alafia Bank Bird Sanctuary Audubon of Florida Ann Hodgson |
$9,500.00 |
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This is a special criteria grant. The Richard T. Paul Alafia Bank Bird Sanctuary is eroding on the south side of the Bird Island Cove. This grant will install mini-reefs of oyster domes to reduce wave-caused erosion and provide habitat for oysters, colonial waterbirds and diamondback terrapins. One hundred and fifty domes will be placed by volunteers from Mosaic Fertilizer, Tampa Port Authority and local Audubon chapters. | |
| Neotropical Migrant Songbird Educational Field Guides Quest Ecology, Inc. Lauren Deaner |
$3,800.00 |
| Quest Ecology, Inc. plans to promote awareness of threats facing neotropical migratory songbirds and winter usage of the Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve by these tiny, long-distance fliers. Field guides will be created to inform visitors to the Preserve of both year-round and migratory songbirds found there. | |
| Invasive Species Workshops for Middle School Teachers In Hillsborough County The Florida Aquarium Debbi Stone |
$7,500.00 |
| Funding for this grant will provide four one-day Invasive Species workshops for middle school teachers in Hillsborough County, reaching up to 100 educators. The workshops will utilize the Tampa Bay Estuary Program's "Intruders in Paradise" teaching guide. Workshops will be aligned with FCAT benchmarks for use in classrooms. | |
Manatee County
| Spring Break Camp at Felts Preserve Around the Bend Nature Tours Karen Fraley |
$5,450.00 |
| This grant will allow 100 students participating in the free and reduced lunch program at local schools to attend a one-week Spring Break camp, where they will learn about invasive plants, the role of wetlands in water quality, and migratory birds' dependence on wetlands for survival. | |
| Watershed Education Program City of Bradenton Beach 'Scenic Waves' Partnership Committee Lisa Phillips |
$1,300.00 |
| The 'Scenic Waves' Committee is a dedicated group of citizens and businesspeople who serve in an advisory capacity to the City of Bradenton Beach. This grant will purchase a coastal 'enviroscape' model to demonstrate the basics of water runoff. Committee members will demonstrate the model at ongoing education exhibits performed in schools, science fairs, and festivals. | |
| Tarpon Tails and Trees: Coastal Restoration and Research in Manatee County
Manatee County Board of County Commissioners Melissa Cain Nell |
$7,735.00 |
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This is a special criteria grant.
This grant will enhance the restoration work at Robinson and Emerson Point Preserves by establishing a community-based education program designed to involve residents in the continuing care and monitoring of these restored habitat areas. Planting native plants at Emerson Point and marine life surveys at Robinson Preserve are the cornerstones for this grant. | |
| Bay Scallop Stock Enhancement: Tampa Bay Terra Ceia Village Improvement Association Curt Hemmel |
$10,000.00 |
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This is a special criteria grant.
This grant will facilitate the release of scallops into Lower Tampa Bay to assist with jump-starting scallop populations there. Neighborhood residents will work with local scientists from FWRI to release the scallops in suitable locations and monitor their survival and subsequent spawning success. | |
Pinellas County
| The Education/Implementation of Restoration Lakewood High School Academy of Marine Science & Environ. Technology |
$500.00 |
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This is a teacher support grant.
This grant will allow students in the Academy of Marine Science and Environmental Technology at Lakewood High School to travel to local agencies as field trips. Agencies participating include Tampa Bay Watch, Pinellas County Solid Waste-to-Energy Plant and South Cross Bayou Water Reclamation Plant. | |
| Broward Elementary School Weedon Island Preserve 4th Grade Science and History Field Trip Joan Marsh |
$443.50 |
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This is a teacher support grant.
Students attending this inner-city school will take a field trip to Weedon Island to learn about the habitats and inhabitants of Tampa Bay. The teacher will administer a pre and post test to determine the learning gained from this experience. | |
| Canterbury School Habitat Restoration - Phase II Canterbury School of Florida Dan Otis |
$5,000.00 |
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This is a special criteria grant. Canterbury School, winner of last year's "Golden Mangrove Award" for best Bay Mini-Grant project, will use this new grant to continue on-site habitat restoration. This project will also task an eagle scout with the volunteer recruitment and other aspects of the project to complete his certification. | |
| George C. McGough Habitat Restoration City of Largo, Recreation, Parks and Arts Department Greg Brown |
$10,000.00 |
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This is a special criteria grant.
The City will restore approximately 3.5 acres of coastal wetlands and uplands at the George C. McGough Nature Park. The City will partner with several local scout troops and Fire Explorers to recruit volunteers for the planting portion of the restoration. | |
| Crescent Lake Makeover - Phase III Crescent Lake Neighborhood Association Gary Crosby |
$1,000.00 |
| Crescent Lake is entering Phase III of its restoration and maintenance. Phase III includes clean out, monitoring, and assessment of the recently installed debris catchers; purchase of plants and waders; and several more clean-up and planting work days. | |
| Friends of Pinellas Master Naturalists, Inc. Embrace the Bay through Education Jeanne Murphy |
$4,169.63 |
| The Friends of Pinellas Master Naturalists, a non-profit group supporting the mission of the Florida Master Naturalist Program, will purchase props and printed materials for use at presentations and educational booths. Additionally staff will provide guest speakers at local festivals and expos and lead land and marine guided field trips at local parks or education centers. | |
| Little Bayou Park and Watershed Restoration Project Greater Pinellas Point Civic Association Ray Wunderlich, III |
$10,000.00 |
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This is a special criteria grant. The Civic Association plans to remove invasive plants and re-plant with native plant species at a 17-acre park in St. Petersburg. Volunteers will participate in several workdays to plant upland and wetland species in the areas cleared of the invasive plants. | |
| Bi-Annual Bear Creek Cleanup Pasadena Bear Creek Neighborhood Assoc. Aaron Sharpe |
$2,000.00 |
| Bear Creek, which runs through the west St. Petersburg neighborhood of Pasadena Bear Creek and empties into Boca Ciega Bay, is coordinating clean-up and debris removal days. Volunteers will remove debris that has accumulated along the creek and the Neighborhood Association will install signs to raise awareness of the creek's importance. | |
| McKay Creek Greenway Natural Area Habitat Restoration Pinellas County Extension Debbie Chayet |
$9,969.00 |
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This is a special criteria grant.
This 10-acre restoration project will involve removal of invasive plants followed by the re-introduction of the federally endangered Chrysopsis floridana, Florida Golden Aster. Volunteers from Master Gardeners, Fish and Wildlife and Bok Tower will plant the Golden Aster plants and help to create educational signage. Bok Tower will grow the endangered plants that will be installed on the scrub site. | |
Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas Counties
| Bay Area Canoe and Kayak Club (BACK) Bay Area Canoe and Kayak Proposal Sheryl Beach |
$4,533.00 |
| The Bay Area Canoe and Kayak Club will team with the Florida Sheriff's Youth Ranches to teach children how to become Bay stewards. Children will learn about the importance of No Motor Zones to protect seagrass beds, the importance of keeping mangrove shorelines free of debris, promotion of catch and release fishing and native vs. invasive plants. | |
| Bats of Tampa Bay Florida Bat Conservancy Cyndi Marks |
$7,461.00 |
| The Florida Bat Conservancy will provide workshops to wildlife and environmental professionals to educate them in bat species identification, habitat and conservation. The companion portion of this grant includes a public program for night hikes at local parks or preserves in the tri-county area and training on use of bat detectors, surveys and monitoring techniques. | |
| Banner, Mobile Display and Website - Frog Listening Network Hillsborough River Watershed Alliance Lance Arvidson |
$7,365.00 |
| This project is designed to enhance the community education aspect of the Frog Listening Network by improving the events, presentations, workshops and outings that are performed thought the year as well as extend the education and outreach capabilities of the Network through the use of a website and the purchase of the banner and mobile display components. | |
| 'Don't Cut The Line' and "How to Help Baby Birds' brochures Save Our Seabirds, Inc. Lee Fox |
$5,500.00 |
| Educational brochures will be created to educate and raise awareness of the problems caused by feeding seabirds, leaving unattended fishing poles, proper disposal of unwanted fishing line, and hook extraction tips. The brochures will be distributed in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Manatee counties. | |
| "The Creek, The Kazoo, and What You Can Do" Book for K-5th Grade The Pier Aquarium, Inc. Howard Rutherford |
$7,500.00 |
| The Pier Aquarium, in partnership with Campbell Park Elementary, will create a 'Watershed Watchers' book to introduce water quality and watershed stewardship in a fun easy-to-read, engaging format. Books will be distributed beginning with Campbell Park and at The Pier Aquarium library during reading sessions. | |
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