Last Month, a plan to let private development interests have their way with part of a publicly protected wildlife area near Jacksonville was shot down almost as soon as the scheme was exposed.

Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ administration appeared ready to greenlight this anti-green proposal that would’ve sacrificed a portion of the Guana River Wildlife Management Area in exchange for the developer purchasing land elsewhere. But the governor and developers ran into a wall of opposition — from local officials, legislators on both sides of the aisle and even the White House.

President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who cut her political chops in the Jacksonville area, said that allowing a developer to destroy this area of supposedly protected land was ”outrageous and completely contrary

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