{"id":361,"date":"2017-09-21T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=361"},"modified":"2017-09-21T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:16:24","slug":"jack-creek-pact-with-fwc-on-swiftmud-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Jack Creek Pact With FWC On Swiftmud Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swfwmd.state.fl.us\/calendar\/meetingfiles\/\">Southwest Florida Water Management District<\/a> is scheduled to consider a formal agreement with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for the management of Jack Creek Preserve in central Highlands County south of Sebring.\n<\/p>\n<p>The meeting begins at 3 p.m. at the agency&#8217;s Tampa office on U.S. 301. It will be followed by the tentative budget hearing at 5:01 p.m.\n<\/p>\n<p>The meetings are open to the public and can also be viewed online.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 1,268-acre tract is home for 20 listed species and is open to the public for hiking and nature study. It is part of a system, of preserves along the Lake Wales Ridge that have been purchased in recent decades to protect rare endemic species.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the backup information on Swiftmud&#8217;s website, the agreement is intended to clarify each agency&#8217;s role in managing the property.\n<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday the Southwest Florida Water Management District is scheduled to consider a formal agreement with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for the management of Jack Creek Preserve in central Highlands County south of Sebring. The meeting begins at 3 p.m. at the agency&#8217;s Tampa office on U.S. 301. It will be followed [&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-361","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\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}