{"id":294,"date":"2017-06-15T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=294"},"modified":"2017-06-15T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T03:59:45","slug":"cabinet-oks-area-conservation-easement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet OKs Area Conservation Easement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/061617_0359_CabinetOKsA1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>This week Gov. Rick Scott and  the Florida Cabinet agreed to spent $9.8 million to purchase a 6,071-acre conservation easement in portions of Hardee and Polk counties to protect another part of a regional habitat corridor in the Peace River Basin.\n<\/p>\n<p>The property owned by Crews Groves contains 3,826 acres of uplands and 2,245 acres of wetlands around Old Town Creek, which flows toward Charlie Creek, a tributary of the Peace River.\n<\/p>\n<p>The property contains cutthroat grass, gopher tortoises, pygmy fringe tree and Florida scrub lizard.\n<\/p>\n<p>It is adjacent or near to existing public and private conservation lands, including The Nature Conservancy&#8217;s Saddle Blanket Scrub.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet agreed to spent $9.8 million to purchase a 6,071-acre conservation easement in portions of Hardee and Polk counties to protect another part of a regional habitat corridor in the Peace River Basin. The property owned by Crews Groves contains 3,826 acres of uplands and 2,245 acres [&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-294","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\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}