What the state wants is for our county to abandon all interests in the roads so the whack-jobs that infest all of these countless alphabet agencies can put an end to or severely curtail all public use of public lands.
If you would like to voice your opinion, there's a thread on one of our local forums here with a poll and commentary. You must be registered to vote in the poll, but anyone can comment or email the commissioners.
Here are the commissioner's and county managers email addresses if you would like to let them know how you feel:
TomHenning@colliergov.net;jamesmudd@colliergov.net;JimColetta@colliergov.net;fredcoyle@colliergov.net;DonnaFiala@colliergov.net;FrankHalas@colliergov.net
The meeting is tomorrow so time is of the essence.
Trying something bump! lol
The mega-corporations, land developers and the sugar industry don't give a hoot-in-hell about the Everglades' preservation or the perpetuation of that irreplaceable land. The primary, indeed, the sole concern of agribusiness is to insure their ability to exploit the land available for sugar crops and their related intractable pollution. Developers too have a narrow focus and it isn't the preservation of Florida's heritage and the Everglades' pristine nature. Those pirates look only for more marsh land to drain and pillage for the construction and sale of air conditioned boxes to retiring folks from the North and Midwest.
The destruction wrought by industry and developers who have long had elected officials and the U.S. Corps of Engineers in their pockets can be proved merely by touring the Everglades, estuaries, bays and waterways or by obtaining knowledge about the decline in wildlife and their habitat.
The time to stop these really bad guys was years ago. Letting them remain virtually unchecked to rampage the rest of the area is to multiply the prior criminal neglect by orders of magnitude. Worst of all, the present administration in Washington seems perfectly content to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency to a toothless and meaningless structure and do nothing to preserve one of the most vital rechargeable water resources within our borders.