There Was Some Good Environmental Election News Tuesday

The national news may have given environmentalists some pause Tuesday and early Wednesday, but locally the -picture is brighter in this part of Florida.
Voters in Lake and Osceola counties approved referendums to buy more environmental lands.
In Orange County, voters approved charter amendments to protect rural lands, to require better financial analyses of the impact of sprawl development and to protect defined environmentally important lands. In neighboring Seminole County voters overwhelmingly approved measures requiring super majority votes to remove land from the rural zoning designation or to surplus environmental lands.
As mentioned in an earlier post, Polk commissioners –even one commissioner who consistently voted against both referendums to fund the program–celebrated the first purchase on the second anniversary of the 2022 referendum’s approval.
The constitutional amendment to place hunting and fishing rights in the Florida Constitution, whose vague wording was a subject of a previous post here, also passed.
Here is hoping that that this amendment does not encourage wildlife management in Florida to go off the rails as feared.
I will add a comment from the late Lee Hays, a member of The Weavers, a folk group popular decades ago, after Richard Nixon was elected President.
“Be of good cheer; this, too, shall pass,” he advised. “I know. I have had kidney stones.”
I know what he is talking about.