{"id":2893,"date":"2025-03-19T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:51:45","slug":"proposed-easement-to-protect-more-land-in-green-swamp-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Easement To Protect More Land In Green Swamp Core"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/screenshot-1742396278009.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/screenshot-1742396278009.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/screenshot-1742396278009.png 816w, https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/screenshot-1742396278009-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/screenshot-1742396278009-768x604.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 25 the Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing Board will consider an agreement with the Florida Department of Agriculture &amp; Consumer Services to acquire a perpetual conservation easement on a ranch along the Withlacoochee River. <br>The property is owned by Headwaters Ranch LLC, which is located west of State Road 33 just north of the Polk-Lake county line.<br>It contains 3.5 miles of frontage on the Withlacoochee River,, one of five rivers whose headwaters lie in the Green Swamp Area of Critical State Concern.<br>The easement, whose purchase was authorized at the March 5 Florida Cabinet meeting, will add to an extensive land conservation effort here.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 25 the Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing Board will consider an agreement with the Florida Department of Agriculture &amp; Consumer Services to acquire a perpetual conservation easement on a ranch along the Withlacoochee River. The property is owned by Headwaters Ranch LLC, which is located west of State Road 33 just north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-2893","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\/2893","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}