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“Florida Home Buyers Cancel $41 Million in Sales After Public Access to Preserve is Disclosed” - News Brief, PRFA, August 2007

Additional Helpful
Organizations

Pacific Legal Foundation
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Monroe County Chapter of Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights
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Property Rights Action Committee
The Property Rights Action Committee is devoted to the protection of private property rights by telling true stories of property rights violations.

Additional Resources

Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights
Newsletter “Freedom Alert”
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James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies
Jim McDowell, President
The Florida think tank specializing in freedom issues, including private property rights, overregulation, privatization, growth management, and many other topics, especially educational issues.
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Websites

Florida State House of Representatives
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Florida State Senate
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State News

“Who’s Gonna Pay?” - By Madeleine Fortin (PRFA, December 14, 2005)
The Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District keep a massive drainage structure closed, flooding neighborhoods and farmland during Hurricane Katrina and other storms, which damages or destroys houses, motor vehicles and farmland, and kills farm animals.
More on this topic: Wetlands Policy—National
More on this topic: Farming Issues—National

“Land Grab by Conservation Easement” - By J. Zane Walley, Speech, Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Nov. 2002)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is enlarging the Everglades by using its canals to raise the water level in Dade County, Florida - flooding an 8.5 square mile area where over 500 families live, ruining the avocado orchards and other farms, and making the area uninhabitable. Transferable development rights are also imposed to return the land to “Wildlands.”
More on this topic: Wildlands — National

“Beware of Those Noxious Wildlife Corridors” - By Nate Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, Aug 16, 2002)
Americans should wake up to the threat to traditional American values posed by the pseudo-science of the Wildlands Project, which is being used to advocate federal ownership of land between “core” areas such as the Okefenokee and Osceola National Forests in Florida.
More on this topic: Wildlands — National

“Existing and Tentative U. N. World Heritage Sites in the United States” -reprinted from Positions on Property, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Nov. 1998)
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More on this topic: Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites

“Aggressive Non-Profits — Recently Revealed Land Trust Obstruction of Private Property Owners” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA Background Brief, July 1998)
Scenic Hudson’s tactics in the Fishkill Ridge have obstructed Montfort aggregate mine application for 8 years, costing the small firm $2 million so far. Mohonk Preserve, Friends of the Shawangunks and Open Space Institute team up against young couple. ABC story exposing The Nature Conservancy tactics in Florida Keys is spiked.
More on this topic: Land Trusts