{"id":2898,"date":"2025-03-27T19:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2025-03-27T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:42:35","slug":"creek-ranch-wma-management-plan-hearing-tuesday-in-haines-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2898","title":{"rendered":"Creek Ranch WMA Management Plan Hearing Tuesday in Haines City"},"content":{"rendered":"The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will host a public hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Lake Eva Civic Center in Haines City to discuss the draft management plan for Creek Ranch Wildlife Management Area.<br \/>Creek Ranch is a 1,342-acre site on Hatchineha Road east of Haines  City that was planned for a residential-commercial development until. the state purchased the property last year for $36.1 million.<br \/>It contains a mosaic of habitats including oak hammocks, pastures, scrubby flatwoods and wetlands.<br \/>The draft 10-year management plan envisions opening the property for a variety of uses that will include hiking, wildlife observation, fishing, hunting and environmental education.<br \/>No date for opening the property to the public has been announced.<br \/> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will host a public hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Lake Eva Civic Center in Haines City to discuss the draft management plan for Creek Ranch Wildlife Management Area.Creek Ranch is a 1,342-acre site on Hatchineha Road east of Haines City that was planned for a residential-commercial [&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-2898","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\/2898","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=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}