Tagged: Habitat

Victory at Mill Bayou!

We won! We protected the Little Manatee River and her wildlife from a developer who wanted to bulldoze hundreds of native trees just to build 8 houses on a skinny mangrove-lined spit in the middle of the river at Mill Bayou, and let the new McMans…

Cone Ranch is saved!

Thanks to diligent citizens who refused to take “no” for an answer, the county has, finally, found a way to transfer Cone Ranch from the Water Dept. to ELAPP — immediately! After months of insisting that there was NO WAY this could be accomplished…

Let’s save Cone Ranch now — not 5 years from now.

Please write the county commissioners and ask them to save Cone Ranch by putting it in ELAPP now — not 5 years from now. Thursday (tomorrow) at 1:30 Commissioners will consider waiting 5 years, while striking a deal with the Water Utility that has…

Help support Florida Forever funding

Dear friends of Florida’s wild places, As many of you know, funding for Florida Forever — our state’s conservation land-buying program — was recently eliminated from the state budget. You can help demonstrate public support for reinstating this pr…