Save Split Oak Forest

A for-profit corporation is planning to build a toll road through Split Oak Forest, a popular publicly-owned wildlife preserve in Orange and Osceola Counties. The board of the Central Florida Expressway Authority voted on March 8th to proceed with studying this roadway. This will result in a preferred alignment accepted by December 2018. Of the seven routes shown at the public meetings preceding the vote, only one of them avoids Split Oak, and this route is within 100' of its boundary.

The money raised by this campaign will be used to defend Split Oak Forest. Most likely this will result in a legal battle. We need these funds for a lawyer's retainer within the next three months.

The funds will be held by Friends of Split Oak Forest, Inc. [photo by Susan Kirby]