Tasha Bowers, environmental scientist for the District’s Sarasota Service Office, received the Shining Star award for April for her volunteer efforts with ani

Kurt Durham and Mitch Malone, senior field technicians, each received the District’s Shining Star award.

From left: Andrea Roshaven, Tampa Water Department; Maritza Rovira-Forino, Governing Board member; Paul Rauch, Wildrose Lawncare Inc.

Left: Competitors in the Nature Coast Envirothon.

Left: Joel DeAngelis, senior land management specialist, shows volunteers Porgy Smith and Ellen Puckett how to remove the invasive plants.

Elementary students at Lincoln Avenue Academy in Polk County painted rain barrels as part of their mini-grant.

Clockwise, from top left: Paul Senft, Judith C. Whitehead, Hugh M. Gramling and Bryan K. Beswick.

Name: Rufus C. Lazzell
Basin Board: Peace River