Conservation

A Florida constitutional amendment requires a portion of real-estate documentary stamp tax revenues be used for the Land Acquisition Trust Fund.

Owners of three farms have signed deals with Florida, totaling nearly $9 million, to restrict future residential and commercial development.

Photographer Carlton Ward Jr., who has spent years trying to protect and preserve the Florida Wildlife Corridor, is now turning his conservation efforts on the Gulf of Mexico. Ward, whose images of Florida panthers and...

$1.6 million from Florida’s Rural and Family Lands Protection Program will purchase a conservation easement on 237 acres in Okeechobee County.

A proposed project would lead to a highway extension through part of the Split Oak Forest Wildlife and Environmental Area in Osceola County.

Florida's Agriculture Commissioner wants $300 million for a conservation program, triple the amount vetoed by Gov. Ron DeSantis this year.

Floridians fly, not refugees Last Thursday Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an Executive Order to fly Floridians stranded in Israel back to the US. However, the Governor says the United States...

Controversial judicial circuit mergers A committee is considering a controversial plan to reduce the number of judicial circuits in Florida, but some discussion about the plan will be happening behind closed doors.   Schools struggle...

The Cabinet supported three land purchases under the Florida Forever program. They also approved buying three conservation easements.

Dan May Island receives conservation funds Dan May Island is a 72-acre island on Florida’s west coast, north of Cedar Key, accessible only by boat or seaplane. Friday, the Department of Environmental Protection Acquisition and...

Dan May Island is a 72-acre island on Florida’s west coast, north of Cedar Key, accessible only by boat or seaplane.

More than 180 landowners have applied to a state-funded program designed to keep swaths of rural Florida from development.