The South Florida Water Management District owns about 1.4 million acres across South Florida, including this land in the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Preserve in Palm Beach County. Environmental groups are raising concerns about district plans to sell about 3,000 acres of public land scattered across South Florida. (By Andy Reid)
By Andy Reid
7:40 p.m. EST, December 14, 2011
Environmentalists are sounding the alarm over the South Florida Water Management District potentially shrinking its vast real estate holdings.
Audubon of Florida and the Sierra Club are among the environmental groups raising concerns that budget cuts have the district selling off too much public land once slated for restoration or conservation.
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