Trying to Save Florida’s Landscape

December 15, 2017

By Zac Anderson

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Sitting in an open air chickee hut with expansive views of the pastures and pine forests on his ranch bordering Myakka River State Park, Jim Strickland points to a tree line in the distance toshow where a golf course once was planned.Before Strickland and a partner bought the 4,530-acre Blackbeard’s Ranch, it was owned by aWorld War II Army general whose family began buying property in the area in the 1940s. When the general died his heirs considered developing the land.

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