The $3.4 million purchase was celebrated by the North Florida Land Trust as a step to help preserve the area’s natural ecosystems.
“Acquiring this property is a big win for our team and for conservation in general,” the land trust’s interim president,, said in an announcement about the deal it had negotiated since 2018 with Jacksonville-based owner 1621 Venture II LLC.
“We were able to save at least this 400 acres from being developed which would have destroyed some important habitats for many plant and animal species,” DeFoor said of the deal with the developer, which still owns more than 4,000 acres in the area near the south fork of Black Creek.Ocala to Osceola Wildlife Corridor
, a 1.6-milllion acre network of private and public land conservationists are working to protect as a route for wildlife like black bears to live and migrate in safely. The land also includes habitat for the Florida pitcher plant, almost all species of which are considered threatened or endangered. Situated near the Camp Blanding Wildlife Management Area, the site is close enough to the Florida National Guard’s sprawling base that development there was considered potentially harmful to the base’s operations.
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