SAVING NATURAL FLORIDA: ‘You see it disappearing before your eyes’

VENICE — Florida appears headed for trouble, according to Julie Morris.

Morris is the Venice-based executive director of the Florida Conservation Group, a nonprofit that advocates for paying ranchers, farmers and other property owners to turn their land into conservation easements.

The easements, in turn, remain a natural part of Florida — free of development…

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