By Lloyd Dunkelberger, NYT Regional Media Group
Source: The Ledger
Facing a $3 billion budget deficit for next year, neither the House nor the Senate wants to fund Florida Forever, the state’s $300 million-per-year, environmental land-buying program.
It would mean the end — at least for a year — for a land-buying initiative that has led to the purchase of more than 2 million acres of forests, wetlands and other environmentally critical tracts in Florida during the past two decades, including the Babcock Ranch in Southwest Florida and land related to the restoration of the Florida Everglades.
