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Withlacoochee State Forest parcelTampa Bay Times
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Cabot Citrus Farms wants to swap 324 acres of state forest for 324 adjacent acres of land.
In return, Cabot would buy 861 acres of timber land about 50 miles northwest in Cedar Key to give to the state.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has said that the state was getting “better conservation land” in exchange for “less-desirable land’s” land.
At least one high-ranking state forestry official disagreed with the land swap, emails show.
Environmentalists say the state is receiving more acres than it’s giving away.
The land in Cedar Key is far apart in conservation value.
The state forest land is becoming fully restored sand-hill habitat, which shares similar levels of biodiversity to tropical rainforests.
It's interspersed with patches that have no trees at all.
It's unclear when the land swap will next come up for a vote.
The Acquisition and Restoration Council , a committee within the Department of Environmental Protection that has the final say, did not discuss it during its latest meeting Thursday .
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