Please be a voice
I was having a discussion with a friend a few days ago. We were discussing how great it was to be a kid growing up in Florida 50 odd years ago. We both came to the conclusion it is not that way any longer.
Development, which many believe was the best thing to happen to my beloved state, is continuing to trash the whole makeup of Florida. It began many years ago with the coming of the Army Corp of Engineers to straighten out the Kissimmee Chain, continued on through the draining of the Everglades, sped up with the over-development of the area around Orlando and is now marching down our coast to outside Naples and the other side of the Everglades. We have lost so much. We don't have enough water, enough roadways, or enough money to keep up this destruction and it is destruction in my mind.
There are houses and condos sitting empty and they want to build more. Sometimes more is not better when it comes to the destruction of the Florida panther habitat.
We are overrun now with exotics and creatures which don't belong. We euthanize by the thousands, unwanted companion animals, we have horses which are starving or being stolen to be butchered for food. There are range deputies to protect cattle and now they want to destroy thousands of acres of panther habitat to build more?
Please read this story and then write to the groups involved in trying to stop this fiasco. Ask your friends and neighbors to do the same. Please don't allow the federal or state government to rape our state any longer. There are only an estimated 100 Florida panthers left in the wild. Let's do all we can to protect them.
Development, which many believe was the best thing to happen to my beloved state, is continuing to trash the whole makeup of Florida. It began many years ago with the coming of the Army Corp of Engineers to straighten out the Kissimmee Chain, continued on through the draining of the Everglades, sped up with the over-development of the area around Orlando and is now marching down our coast to outside Naples and the other side of the Everglades. We have lost so much. We don't have enough water, enough roadways, or enough money to keep up this destruction and it is destruction in my mind.
There are houses and condos sitting empty and they want to build more. Sometimes more is not better when it comes to the destruction of the Florida panther habitat.
We are overrun now with exotics and creatures which don't belong. We euthanize by the thousands, unwanted companion animals, we have horses which are starving or being stolen to be butchered for food. There are range deputies to protect cattle and now they want to destroy thousands of acres of panther habitat to build more?
Please read this story and then write to the groups involved in trying to stop this fiasco. Ask your friends and neighbors to do the same. Please don't allow the federal or state government to rape our state any longer. There are only an estimated 100 Florida panthers left in the wild. Let's do all we can to protect them.
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