St. Johns County Residents Oppose Guana River Wildlife Management Area Land Swap

Conservation groups sound alarm on opaque, fast-tracked Guana River land swap plan

Conservation groups have been alarmed by a proposed land swap that would trade roughly 600 acres of prime conservation habitat within the Guana River Wildlife Management Area (WMA) for more than 3,000 acres elsewhere. They cite the plan’s lack of details and surreptitious presentation — a measure about the proposal was placed on the state Acquisition and Restoration Council’s (ARC) Wednesday agenda with less than a week’s notice — as especially …

Stop Guana swap. Didn't Florida learn lesson from state parks saga?

In Florida, this land is your land. Until a developer wants it? Guana land swap would set a horrible precedent.

Controversial land swap would have state give up 600 acres of protected land inside Guana Research Reserve

Florida would get 3,000 acres in four different counties in parcels across the state in exchange.

St. Johns County residents oppose Guana River Wildlife Management Area land swap

St. Johns County residents are opposing a land swap of about 600 acres of the Guana River Wildlife Management Area for about 3,065 acres of land from four separate parcels throughout Florida.

‘Stop the Swap:’ St. Johns County residents, leaders protest against Guana land swap Saturday - Finnoexpert

The message Saturday morning in Ponte Vedra: “Stop the Swap:” as hundreds of concerned neighbors, as well as state and county leaders, showed out with signs in hand to speak out against the proposed land swap of the Guana Wildlife Management Area. “If we lose this, we have lost what is the crown jewel of this county,” county commissioner Sarah Arnold said at Saturday’s protest. The proposed deal, which would swap 600 acres of Guana land for 3,00…

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Save Outpost from development by Ponte Vedra Corporation. Conservation land owned by Herb Peyton in Palm Valley, Florida