Preservation

The Florida Trust of Historic Preservation adds the Van Wezel and the old Plant City High School to its yearly list of buildings that need preservation.

Turtle Mound, the tallest shell mound in the mainland United States, is an example of what it looks like when proactive measures are taken to preserve and monitor a coastal mound. But for this mound and hundreds of Indigenous cultural sites in Florida, archeologists are asking how long they can race against erosion.

The city was one of 33 sites nationwide to receive money from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. It will go toward the Union Academy neighborhood.

A plan is being drawn up to help manage the 700 acres offshore of Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties.

A trio of conservationists trotted off on horseback into the woods of a state park near Sebring Sunday. It was the first leg of a seven-day journey to…