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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that could set aside about $750 million a year from Florida's gambling compact with the Seminole Tribe for conservation work. Critics are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw it out.
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The more than 1,200 acres along Fisheating Creek in Highlands County is surrounded on all sides by previously preserved lands.
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Legislative leaders have agreed to use hundreds of millions of dollars in gambling money to help pay for further expansion of a state wildlife corridor and other environmental projects.
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The bills would also use some of the money to keep agricultural lands from being developed and pay for clean water projects.
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The world's most-visited theme park has become — almost by accident — one of the most important links in a corridor for wildlife spanning the length of Florida. It was created by the very organization that was responsible for kickstarting sprawl in Central Florida a half-century ago.
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Federal money could be used to match or augment existing state dollars used to protect environmentally sensitive land, including that of the Florida Wildlife Corridor.
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Florida residents own rights to decide if 5,000 acres of farmland in Charlotte, Hardee, and Highlands counties will ever be developed as part of the Rural and Family Lands program.
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The series will shine a spotlight on the significant efforts of conservationists who are at the forefront of preserving the environment.
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On this week's Florida Roundup, we discuss Floridians losing their Medicaid coverage, a block on Florida’s Medicaid coverage ban for gender-affirming care and the state's plans to protect environmentally sensitive lands.
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The vetoes included $100 million for Conservation And Rural Land Protection easements. "Agriculture was harmed today," Republican Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson said.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday voted to spend around $100 million to help protect nearly 40,000 acres within the Florida Wildlife Corridor.
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It would allow landowners to continue active hunting, farming and cattle operations, while the land would be kept from residential and commercial development.