Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center

06/13/2026

Stormwater Adventures Day is in full swing! 💧
Come see us, we'll be here until 2pm!

06/12/2026

🌧️💧 Tomorrow is Stormwater Adventures Day! 💧🌧️

Bring the whole family and discover the exciting world of stormwater! Learn how rain and runoff impact our environment through hands-on activities, games, demonstrations, and interactive learning experiences.

📅 Come anytime between 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM on Saturday June 13

🎉 Play Stormwater BINGO!
When you arrive, pick up a Stormwater BINGO card and visit activity stations, information tables, and demonstrations to collect stamps. Fill your entire card and turn it in for a prize!

Activities Include:
💩Scoop the P**p
🦁 Don't Feed the Beast
🔬 Water Quality Demonstration
💡 Watershed Trivia

Learn about common sources of water pollution and discover simple ways we can all help protect our local waterways.
We can't wait to see you there for a day of fun, learning, and adventure! https://stormwateradventures.eventbrite.com

06/11/2026

Looking for something to do today? It's not too late to join us for this live streamed webinar to learn all about oysters and how you can take home and install your very own vertical oyster garden! We are one of two host sites that will live-stream Dr. Megan Moore with Florida Sea Grant. The perk of viewing this together with us at Brooker is we have vertical oyster gardens for you to take home 😊. So, what are you waiting for? You can still register up until 10:30am today: https://BCPVOGs.eventbrite.com

Talk about passion, this girl has got it! Olivia Blondheim is the reason we continue to offer vertical oyster gardens (VOGs) for distribution throughout Pinellas County. If you want to get in on the action, join us this Thursday at Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center or Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center from 11am-12pm for a live steaming webinar featuring Dr. Megan Moore with Sea Grant who will introduce you to the value and importance of oysters and how you can get and install a vertical oyster garden of your own! 😎 Why attend a live-stream webinar in-person? We will have VOGs there and ready for you to take home 🙌

🌻Participate at : https://BCPVOGs.eventbrite.com
🐟Participate at : https://VOGweedon.eventbrite.com
🏠Participate from the comfort of your home: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oysters-at-work-how-vertical-oyster-gardens-help-our-waters-tickets-1985946628827?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

06/10/2026

Every June, we look forward to these delicate flowers dangling from the trees throughout the swamp.

It's our Tampa Butterfly Orchid (Encyclia tampensis)!
This epiphytic is found most often on tree branches that overhang seasonally wet areas.

Fun fact- the specific epithet, tampensis, refers to the first plant that was collected and described, which happened somewhere in the Tampa Bay area in 1847!

06/09/2026

Celebrate Stormwater Stewardship Month today by learning with Lara during her lunch-n-learn webinar at 12:15pm! 💦

Register for her "Walk" the Watershed webinar here: https://watershedwebinar.eventbrite.com

Celebrate Stormwater Stewardship Month with us from the comfort of your home, office or wherever you are! Lara will be kicking of Stormwater Stewardship Month with a live webinar starting at 12:15pm on Tuesday, June 9. If there's one thing Lara is good at, is making stormwater fun and exciting to learn about. You won't regret joining...at least we hope not 😉

REGISTER HERE: https://watershedwebinar.eventbrite.com

06/05/2026

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06/05/2026

💦Have you heard about Lara's Stormwater Stewardship Month?!💦She has a whole lineup of programs for you to learn about this very important topic.

Truth is, most of us don't think about stormwater until it's literally in our front yard, or worse, our homes. Understanding more about stormwater both on the water quality side of things and water quantity side of things can help you become a better water steward.

We would love to see you at one of Lara's upcoming programs. All the Stormwater Stewardship Month Programs can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/stormwater-stewardship-month-programs-4244893?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Pinellas County Environmental News Tampa Bay Estuary Program Tampa Bay Watch

06/01/2026

An Eastern Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius) safely crossing the road at Brooker Creek Preserve! 🐍💚

It is always a treat to see these beauties! They are quite secretive and often underground or under logs and leaf litter. Coral Snakes are one of the four venomous snakes you may encounter in central Florida and the only one in the cobra (Elapidae) family.

Video credit goes to our Ranger Mary 👏 This is a great reminder for everyone to use caution while driving through the Preserve. Far too often, we unfortunately find dead snakes in the road after they've been run over.

06/01/2026

Check out everything coming up this month at your Preserve! 🌸

We're celebrating Stormwater Stewardship month with some extra special opportunities, plus new youth programs, and so much more- there's something for everyone!

Email from Pinellas County Government Celebrate Stormwater Stewardship Month! View as Webpage June at Your Preserve Programs & Events Empowering citizens to make informed decisions about our natural r

05/20/2026

Happy World Bee Day!🐝

Have you spotted any of our native bees in your yard or at one of our Pinellas County Parks? Upload your sightings to our iNaturalist project and help us document native bees in Pinellas! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pinellas-county-native-bees