Threat to Florida panhandle

[ICPS-bob]

Today, NPR Morning Edition had a segment on the threat to Florida panhandle, including the St. Joe Company, a former paper company and Florida’s largest private landowner with 800,000 acres, which is undertaking an unprecedented development project converting pine plantations and other lands to affluent housing.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9852652

In 2003, Bill Moyers had an earlier segment in his NOW series on PBS.
www.pbs.org/now/society/panhandle.html

[gaduke]

Just what we need :{

[mannyherrera]

Thanks for this Bob.

[mb01]

It is too bad everyone wants to sell out for a dollar. What a shame

[Brian Barnes]

Greetings fellow CP Conservationists,
Recently it seems, more CP habitats are being cleared, drained and sold as residential properties in Northern Florida, where some of the most diverse and concentrated CP environments in the world exist.
Here's a disheartening picture from an area just outside of the Appalachicola State Forest in the Florida Panhandle...
The land is being surveyed and evaluated for clearing. Note the Pinguicula lutea plants and flowers trampled by the heavy equipment;