September 2024: Right on the heels of the attempted assault on our state parks is the proposal to declare as surplus a 324-acre parcel of land in the Withlacoochee State Forest (WSF) in order to facilitate a swap of the parcel for a privately owned 860-acre stand of pine plantation in Levy County.
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- Tampa Bay Times: Florida OK’d giving 324 acres of state forest to golf course company The land swap, which still need final approval, was separate from the controversial initiative embroiling Florida’s environmental agency (9/2)
- Golfweek: Cabot, environmentalists at odds over proposed state land swap to expand Citrus Farms in Florida (9/6)
https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/09/19/handing-florida-state-forest-to-a-golf-course-builder-is-another-desantis-deal/?emci=cd98f45f-1676-ef11-991a-6045bdee6681&emdi=1206d481-7a76-ef11-991a-6045bdee6681&ceid=395100
Add your name to this letter by October 11, 2024
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- Name of Organization or Business
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- Name of Organization or Business
- Name of person signing for the organization or business
- Title of person signing for the organization or business
- The letter will be sent without letterhead, and a simple press release (no quotes) will go out without any header.
- Let me know (include your cell phone number) if you'd like any press inquiries we get to be directed to you (as a signatory), and I will do so.
- Once you get the final letter/press release, you are encouraged to personalize and distribute to your local/favorite press contacts.
- Name of Organization or Business
- Name of person signing for the organization or business
- Title of person signing for the organization or business
- The letter will be sent without letterhead, and a simple press release (no quotes) will go out without any header.
- Let me know (include your cell phone number) if you'd like any press inquiries we get to be directed to you (as a signatory), and I will do so.
- Once you get the final letter/press release, you are encouraged to personalize and distribute to your local/favorite press contacts.