{"id":3033,"date":"2008-09-29T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2008-09-29T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:46:35","slug":"will-the-florida-keys-be-our-next-national-park-i-hope-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/will-the-florida-keys-be-our-next-national-park-i-hope-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Florida Keys Be Our Next National Park? I Hope Not"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Representatives from South Florida’s Monroe County are going to make a pitch this week for undeveloped private land in the Florida Keys to be bought with federal and state money, and then turned into a national park. While I’m all for more protection of beach and ocean areas in the Keys, I think this is a terrible idea for several reasons. The group in favor of protecting the private land from development plans to ask for $1.2 billion from both the U.S. government and Florida State government to cover the cost of buying the property from its landowners. About 7,372 acres of land that contains sensitive vegetation would be bought and would comprise the national park<\/a>— not the entirety of the Florida Keys. A lawyer who represents some of the landowners has already said that<\/a> it’s \u201cthe dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever heard.” <\/p>\n So here’s why I think the proposal to make these areas a national park is a very bad idea:<\/p>\n As I said from the beginning, it’s great that a group of citizens living in the Florida Keys would like to provide greater environmental protection to certain areas– I just don’t think asking for a national park is the right way to do it. The National Park Service at this moment in the time is drastically underfunded and has a huge backlog of deferred maintenance. Let’s improve our current national parks before we make new ones.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> Allie_Caulfield on Flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons<\/a> license [social_buttons]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Representatives from South Florida’s Monroe County are going to make a pitch this week for undeveloped private land in the Florida Keys to be bought with federal and state money, and then turned into a national park. While I’m all for more protection of beach and ocean areas in the Keys, I think this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27,43],"tags":[10756,12668,13657,23170,24069],"spectra_custom_meta":{"social_buttons":["digg, reddit, yahoo"],"tweet_this_url":["getnew"],"dsq_thread_id":["145090396"],"_oembed_f14913bdfe741d3a3b7c287fcf68d7a8":["
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