Stop proposed nature-preserve giveaways
UPDATE 4/12/13: Thanks to all who took action to oppose these bills and protect our nature preserves, both of these bills are effectively dead this session. Please join me in asking our legislators to...
Tagged: Wildlife
Wimauma Sprawl Project, Part 2: Withdrawn
Good news! The developer has withdrawn their proposal to build what we’ve been calling Part 2 of the Wimauma Sprawl Project.This was a prime example of urban sprawl: 1,500 houses in rural Wimauma (in orange on this map) on Bullfrog Creek wetlands …
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…
Will county commissioners let developers spoil aquatic preserve and destroy wildlife habitat on the Little Manatee River?
Developers want to kill 250 trees (half have trunks over 1 foot in diameter!) and bulldoze wildlife habitat, spoiling a breathtakingly beautiful part of the Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve, just to build eight houses...
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…