{"id":401,"date":"2017-10-31T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=401"},"modified":"2017-10-31T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:50:03","slug":"ancient-islands-sierra-addresses-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Islands Sierra Addresses Legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Kistler, chair of the Ancient Islands Sierra Club group, addressed members of the Polk legislative delegation Tuesday in Bartow during the delegation&#8217;s annual meeting to hear public input prior to session.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kistler emphasized three important environmental issues.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Banning fracking to prevent damage to water supplies and further fragmentation of wildlife habitat with new roads.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Supporting full funding of Florida Forever as mandated by voters in a 2014 constitutional referendum.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ensuring that water management districts reserve adequate water for natural systems to prevent further environmental damage.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kistler also offered the resources of Sierra Club experts for legislators seeking additional information to deal properly with these important issues.\n<\/p>\n<p>Legislators also heard support for Florida Forever funding from representatives of the Heartland Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society and the Polk County League of Women Voters.\n<\/p>\n<p>Legislators offered no comments in response to the presentations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Kistler, chair of the Ancient Islands Sierra Club group, addressed members of the Polk legislative delegation Tuesday in Bartow during the delegation&#8217;s annual meeting to hear public input prior to session. Kistler emphasized three important environmental issues. &#8211;Banning fracking to prevent damage to water supplies and further fragmentation of wildlife habitat with new roads. [&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-401","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\/401","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=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}