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On 19 August 2024 the Florida Department of Environmental Protection announced plans [21] to build golf courses and 350-room lodges on state park lands. [22]In statements to the Tampa Bay Times and in posts to social media, the agency claimed that the construction of a golf course on vulnerable scrub habitat will be done in a way to "minimize habitat impacts".
Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve is a Florida State Park just west of Copeland, Florida. It is located in the Fakahatchee Strand , a thread of forested strand (swamp) in Big Cypress , a section of the Florida Everglades off SR 29 .
Price’s Scrub State Park is a 962-acre Florida state park located in Marion County, Florida. [1] The park has relatively high biodiversity with several natural communities, including its scrub, and is important in the proposed regional connection of conservation lands. [1] The park is a part of the proposed Northwest Marion Greenway.
Spain began granting land to individuals in Florida after 1790, including a grant of 6,000 acres (24 km 2) to S. D. Fernandez and another grant to a Sanchez in the present-day park. Four of the archaeological sites in the park are possibly associated with those land grants, and/or with the settlement of Spring Grove , which existed in the 1830s ...
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park is a Florida State Park consisting of Lignumvitae Key, Shell Key, surrounding submerged lands, and a parcel at the northern end of Lower Matecumbe Key. The islands are located one mile west of U.S. 1 ( Overseas Highway ) at mile marker 78.5, and can be reached only by private boat or tour boat.
Big Shoals State Park in Hamilton County, Florida, [1] is a Florida State Park. It is approximately one mile (1.6 km) east of White Springs, off US 41. The park is situated on the Suwannee River and features limestone bluffs as well as the biggest whitewater rapids in all of Florida. The park also features more than 28 miles (45 km) of hiking ...
It was the first conservation action approved by the state. Henry Flagler's widow, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham, matched the state grant for a total of 1,920 acres (780 ha) when the park was dedicated on November 23, 1916. [1] The Ingraham highway, a new road from Florida City to Paradise Key was dedicated at the same time. [6]
The Ralph E. Simmons Memorial State Forest (formerly the St. Mary's State Forest) is in the U.S. state of Florida. The 3,638-acre (15 km 2 ) forest is located in northeastern Florida , near Hilliard , although it is closer to Boulogne .