Proposed budgets defund Florida Forever, but do provide for conservation easements
GOP lawmakers would direct funding to a program for agricultural landowners to preserve land from development.
GOP lawmakers would direct funding to a program for agricultural landowners to preserve land from development.
The recently enacted High Seas Treaty offers an opportunity to protect the ocean like never before.
Sustainable timber management will continue in Lake Wimico Forest under a conservation easement.
A cruise ship port has been proposed in Manatee County near Rattlesnake Key and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
We must speak for, advocate for and unite behind our public lands during this current legislative session.
Since its inception in 2001, the program has preserved over 225,000 acres of working agricultural land.
Florida Forever needs funding to buy private land for new state parks, state forests and wildlife management areas.
Thanks to state leadership and local lawmakers, this former condo site will be turned into public parkland on Destin’s waterfront.
The best thing we can do is preserve gopher tortoise burrows and the longleaf pine ecosystem supporting them.
The state paid $83 million for 4 acres next to the city of Destin’s Norriego Point Beach park.
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