{"id":2016,"date":"2022-10-31T08:40:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2022-10-31T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:40:32","slug":"circle-b-bar-reserve-reopens-vote-set-for-more-land-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Circle B Bar Reserve Reopens; Vote Set For More Land Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circle B Bar Reserve reopened Monday morning following cleanup work in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian and receding flood waters in the Banana Creek marsh and Lake Hancock&#8217;s shoreline.\n<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers and county staffers have been working for weeks to clear debris in preparation for reopening. No major damage was reported to the Polk Nature Discovery Center.\n<\/p>\n<p>Circle B has become an internationally-known ecotourism destination since its purchase and development under the Polk County Environmental Lands Program.\n<\/p>\n<p>It is part of a network of county managed nature preserves purchased with taxes approved by voters in 1994.\n<\/p>\n<p>A renewed effort to secure voter approval for additional environmental lands purchases in on the Nov. 8 ballot and a grassroots group called Polk Forever is reaching out for public support for its passage.\n<\/p>\n<p>The referendum has been endorsed by a long list of local, regional and national organizations.\n<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the ballot referendum, go to polkforever.com\n<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circle B Bar Reserve reopened Monday morning following cleanup work in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian and receding flood waters in the Banana Creek marsh and Lake Hancock&#8217;s shoreline. Volunteers and county staffers have been working for weeks to clear debris in preparation for reopening. No major damage was reported to the Polk Nature Discovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}