Miami-Dade County hit the pause button on an escalating fight with the nature center founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, saying in a letter Tuesday that it was rescinding an eviction notice.

“This letter supersedes and effectively rescinds any prior communications from the County on this matter,” Parks Director Christina White wrote.

The county parks department sparked the fight in August when it notified the Biscayne Nature Center — housed in a building that Douglas helped raise money to construct — that its programming license was due to expire this month. The letter to the center’s longtime director, Theodora Long, ordered the nonprofit that provides free environmental programs to school kids to pack up and leave.

In the months that followed, tension escalated. Long said county

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