State funding in jeopardy for land conservation programs

April 30, 2017

By Cleveland Tinker
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A state land conservation program may not receive funding for the first time since it was created by the Florida Legislature and another may only receive a fraction of what it used to get before the recession hit in the late 2000s.

That’s the status of funding for the Rural and Family Lands Protection and Florida Forever programs as the current state legislative session nears an end on Friday.

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