{"id":298,"date":"2017-06-20T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=298"},"modified":"2017-06-20T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:54:19","slug":"as-economy-rebounds-conservation-lands-tax-talk-revives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"As Economy Rebounds, Conservation Lands Tax Talk Revives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioners in Collier County are discussing raising  taxes this year to revive its local conservation land preservation program called Conservation Collier, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/06\/15\/taxes-would-rise-under-collier-countys-proposed-spending-plan\/395720001\/\">Naples Daily News<\/a> reports.\n<\/p>\n<p>The move comes at a time when the public is still waiting for the Florida Legislature to implement the voters&#8217; intent in a 2014 constitutional amendment to restart the Florida Forever program to acquire and protect land for conservation to finish the job begun in the 1980s.\n<\/p>\n<p>The lack of state conservation land funding affects local conservation land programs because it can provide matching funds for land purchases.\n<\/p>\n<p>Polk&#8217;s conservation land funding was diverted to road expansion and parks funding , which suffered from the five-year impact fee moratorium.\n<\/p>\n<p>There has been no talk of restoring funding.\n<\/p>\n<p>Activists are working on a campaign to persuade legislators to approve funding for the program rather diverting the money to cover routine operating expenses or projects unrelated to conservation preservation.\n<\/p>\n<p>The plan will be discussed in a webinar Wednesday organized by 1000 Friends of Florida, featuring former Gov. Bob Graham.\n<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1000friendsofflorida.org\/\">1000 Friends&#8217; website<\/a> for details.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioners in Collier County are discussing raising taxes this year to revive its local conservation land preservation program called Conservation Collier, the Naples Daily News reports. The move comes at a time when the public is still waiting for the Florida Legislature to implement the voters&#8217; intent in a 2014 constitutional amendment to restart the [&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-298","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\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}