Students visit once hidden spring in Tampa
Law students at Stetson University recently had the unique opportunity to visit one of Tampa’s natural springs steps away from the Tampa Law Center. On Oct. 21, students in Professor Royal Gardner’s wetland seminar met with Thomas Ries of the Ecosphere Restoration Institute for a tour of the flowing natural spring only blocks from downtown Tampa’s urban skyline. Stetson alumnus Andrew Zodrow ’95 of the Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission spoke about permitting issues.
Thomas Ries talks with Stetson Law students at the Ulele Spring in Tampa. Photo by 3L Robert Laur.
Over the past year, the city has worked to restore the Ulele Spring, once hidden underground, and the Water Works Park behind Stetson University’s Tampa Law Center.
Professor Gardner’s law students learned how the exposed Ulele Spring can provide a refuge for manatee and fish along the Hillsborough River. Gardner directs the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy at Stetson and received the 2006 National Wetlands Award for Education and Outreach from the Environmental Law Institute.
Ries is the 2013 recipient of E.L.I.’s National Wetlands Award for Conservation and Restoration.
To learn more about the Institute and Stetson’s J.D. Certificate of Concentration in Environmental Law, visit https://www.stetson.edu/law/international/biodiversity/.
Students in Professor Royal Gardner’s wetland seminar met with Thomas Ries, alumnus Andrew Zodrow, and staff and judges of the Second District Court of Appeal for a tour of Ulele Spring. Photo by Matt Procopio.
Ulele Spring in Tampa. Photo by 3L Robert Laur.
Post date: Oct. 24, 2014
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