Save An Old Growth Forest
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Help Scott Davis purchase a 12.31 tract of intact, bottomland old growth forest in Jefferson County. Per Scott Davis:
The property holds very high conservation value, both for ecological and water-quality considerations. The surrounding properties are actively logging old-growth bottomland forests, in some cases right-up to the property line.
Caney Branch runs through the majority of the property, and feeds directly into the Wacissa Springs Complex.
Walking (actually trudging) into this tract is like walking into a Florida that never knew people. I hear my favorite quote from Henry David Thoreau echoing in my mind: “Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps."
My cursory surveys of the property yielded numerous listed plant species, many bird and herp species, bears, beavers, and more.
Scott has agreed to put the entirety of the property into a perpetual conservation easement upon purchase, with the only reserved right being the ability to create a trail into the area so that the public can enjoy this slice of old Florida long into the future.
A number of other buyers, likely with logging interests, are looking at this property. We need to act fast.
The property holds very high conservation value, both for ecological and water-quality considerations. The surrounding properties are actively logging old-growth bottomland forests, in some cases right-up to the property line.
Caney Branch runs through the majority of the property, and feeds directly into the Wacissa Springs Complex.
Walking (actually trudging) into this tract is like walking into a Florida that never knew people. I hear my favorite quote from Henry David Thoreau echoing in my mind: “Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps."
My cursory surveys of the property yielded numerous listed plant species, many bird and herp species, bears, beavers, and more.
Scott has agreed to put the entirety of the property into a perpetual conservation easement upon purchase, with the only reserved right being the ability to create a trail into the area so that the public can enjoy this slice of old Florida long into the future.
A number of other buyers, likely with logging interests, are looking at this property. We need to act fast.
Organizer and beneficiary
Peter Kleinhenz
Organizer
Tallahassee, FL
Scott Davis
Beneficiary
