Florida Public land under attack from land grabbers. A little help, please.

[Baitball Blogger]

We have a community problem in Florida that many people would like to ignore. I first saw it when a group of leaders within my community colluded with each other and attempted to break up the common areas in our Association. I saw the same practice repeated with City and Community leaders when they improperly began to dice up a PUD. When lawyers chimed in, reciting wrongful law to encourage them, then it became clear that something was going on. It would all end up in a messy lawsuit that would be hushed up with a confidentiality clause.

But these kind of people are still here and they have no compunction calling themselves land takers. I think that's who is behind what's happening in the article below:

Attacks on environment invite public suspicion

These are perilous times for public land in Florida.

This is an age of ideas that would turn state parks into golf courses, post advertisements on nature trails and purposely introduce a noxious weed like hydrilla into Lake Apopka.

Another initiative comes packaged as an objective, scientific assessment of publicly owned land that's been acquired over the years by Florida's various water management districts.

The St. Johns Water Management District, encompassing 18 counties and most of Central Florida, owns some 600,000 acres.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-07-01/opinion/os-ed-public-land-for-sale-070112-20120629_1_conservation-value-lake-apopka-rick-scott

[2on2u]

1. FOLA

http://www.fola.org/

FWC, the Florida agency responsible for fish and wildlife, has decided not to support a controversial proposal that would have allowed an invasive aquatic plant known as hydrilla to infest more of Lake Apopka... Read the full article on the Orlando Sentinel website...

FOLA thanks all the concerned folks that turned out to support our position at the January meeting and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) for their efforts in reaching this decision.
FWC plan calls for managing hydrilla at lowest levels in Lake Apopka

In January, staff of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) met with the public at a meeting in Winter Garden to learn how people would like hydrilla and other invasive aquatic plants managed on Lake Apopka. The FWC incorporated the comments from that meeting into the 2012-13 management strategy, which calls for controlling hydrilla at the lowest possible level in Lake Apopka.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Thanks. Appreciate the info.

[russspeakeasy]

3. Thank you for this post. The state of Florida is under siege.

Our "Thief in Chief", rick scott and the right wing legislature are quickly cashing in on offers for state parks, national forests, tollways and water.
In Marion County (just north of Orlando)
a MEGA SLAUGHTERHOUSE is requesting 13.5 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER PER DAY !!!! They have already drilled some 150 wells and I would suggest that they didn't drill these wells without some assurance that the request would be approved.

Florida is for sale. A piece at a time.

Again, I thank you for the post and hope I have not hijacked your thread.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. This being an election year, maybe we can get people to listen.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Kick this to the top, please.

It looks like the Orlando Sentinel is finally going to make a stand for the environment.