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FCG supports funding for RFLPP • FDACS Legislative Budget Request: $15 million • Governor’s Recommended Budget: $0 FCG supports additional funding for Florida Forever. • Governor’s recommended budget: $50 million. • More is needed! Click Here to See...
The deadline for this year’s Wetland Reserve Easement Program (WRE) is right around the corner, February 12, 2021. The overall goal of the WRE is to PREVENT further decreases in water quality through land protection and FIX water quality issues by restoring wetlands...
South-central and southwest Florida are home to a Florida’s “great prairie region” where vast grasslands were native along with species adapted to them. This includes the Florida dry prairie ecosystem-- native upland grasses, palmettos, and scattered shrubs and pines,...
The Florida Ecological Greenways Network (FEGN) identifies the most important wildlife corridors and large, intact landscapes in the state. FEGN Priorities 1-3 (shown on map) are the top priority wildlife corridors; these are the lands that need to be protected to...
Cow-calf operations in southern Florida are what we call a ‘low-intensity land use’. Florida’s ranchlands protect a vast amount of native habitat that is critical to the viability of many of our listed wildlife species. Ranchlands hold and filter water; the more we...
FDACS Legislative Budget Request: $32.6 million FCG ASK: 32.6 Million Since 2009 RFLPP has protected over 53,000 acres. Local and federal partners have contributed over 13 million in matching funds. The Rural and Family Lands Protection Program (RFLPP) is an...
FDACS Legislative Budget Request: $32.6 million Florida Conservation Group Request: $32.6 Million Federal funds can match the $32.6 Million budget request by Florida Department of Agriculture and essentially double the budget request. • The Rural and Family...
Members of the conservation, ranching, forestry and sportsmen’s communities have come together in our collective support for funding two critical land protection programs. The Florida Forever Program and The Rural and Family Lands Protection Program are both needed...
Most of Florida ranchlands occurs in a historic region of south-central and southwest Florida where native dry prairie and other grassland savanna type ecosystems (including pine flatwoods) were the predominant landcover types; these landcover types are habitat to a...
The Florida Conservation Group is proud to be working with Business for Water Stewardship www.businessforwater.org and the Durando Family Ranches to implement a dispersed water storage project in the Lake Okeechobee Watershed. This project will store and clean water...
