We are leading conservation projects totaling more than 100,000 acres!
Celebrating Projects and Partnerships
Dear Conservation Trust for Florida friends and supporters, 

We are expanding our service area and capacity to meet the growing demand to protect working and wild lands in Florida.  We are now leading conservation projects totaling more than 100,000 acres in three key regions -- North-Central Florida, the Panhandle, and the Northern Everglades. These projects run the gamut from protecting land for wildlife and water quality to conserving working ranches, farms and timberlands.

Our partnerships with landowners and agencies throughout Florida will permanently protect land that will form the proposed Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Florida Wildlife Corridor.
   
Recent successes near the Everglades headwaters: 
Photo courtesy of Randy Batista. Click photo to view his website.
Read about Bud Adams, his family and their 24,000-acre Lake Marian Ranch in our summer newsletter. Photo Credit: Randy Batista
  • We facilitated the purchase of two conservation easements totaling more than 2,200 acres on the Adams Ranch in Osceola County, which lies in the heart of the Everglades headwaters.
     
  • We engaged five additional ranches in the Everglades headwaters refuge that total over 14,000 acres, and we are assisting Osceola County with the protection of ranches threatened by sprawl.
Expanding Our Capacity
Cyndi Fernandez
Greetings from Cyndi Fernandez

Hi everyone! I am honored to be CTF's new operations manager at this pivotal time in the organization's history. Like many of you, I see a tremendous need to protect the best of what's left of Florida's conservation lands, and CTF is leading the way in statewide, large-scale land protection efforts. 

You can read more about me in my bio, connect with me on twitter or Google+, or email me anytime. I'm excited to be working for you and CTF to support the growning conservation movement in our state.

Giving Thanks
You Make Our Success Possible

We would like to extend a very big "Thank You" to the Lydia B. Stokes Foundation and the SJ Edwards Foundation, whose generous donations supported the hiring of Cyndi and the purchase of new hardware and all the latest software to help us become a more efficient and collaborative land protection agency. 

And thanks to the generosity of the Felburn Foundation, CTF was awarded a matching grant of $35,000. Your donation today will help us meet that challenge! 
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