Florida's Land Conservation Programs

[Music] we live in Florida there's a lot of development pressure that happens in our state and all this vacant land all this pristine land all this great land is under constant threat constant offers an affordable and people every single day by the end of the day today there'll be another thousand people that now live in

our state now's the time now's the time to really look to the future of Florida and save this green space for pennies on the dollar Anna stays on the tax roll and it stays in production and the citizens own it forever and they will always own that green space I'm a member of the Florida

conservation group it's science-based and we advocate for saving Florida's ranchlands I've spent a large part of my career identifying the most important areas in our state for our land and water and identifying how to best protect them in southern Florida are most critical ecological resources are often found on Florida's rangeland I think 71% of Floridians voted for

amendment one to conserve Florida one of the tools we have for land protection our conservation easements which involve essentially purchasing the development rights on a property downstream where the majority of the people lives on the coast of all we supply the water the drinking water and the family use water that they have what we're trying to do

is filter that water before it gets out to the adult that's a vital vital part of what we're doing a conservation easement is an investment for the Florida taxpayer of the Florida resident the struggle now is that there's development pressure on your land the development rights are worth more than the ranching rights conservation