One of the saddest things I saw last summer was the Shenandoah National Park, where the rightful owners were displaced by the government (thanks FDR) and then all of the beautiful chestnut trees died.
We are just coming off a seven year drought that has created huge areas of sink-holes, because the pourous limestone crumbles when there is no water flowing underneath it. North Florida is a pretty solid conservative base, but JEB alienated alot of people by entering into discussions with a cement company that wanteed to divert water away from the pristine (not a word I use often) Itchetucknee River. (you can see pictures at flausa.com or myflorida.com) He eventually backed off.
St. Joe paper company is the largest private owner of land in Florida, aka Arvida. If they have huge tracts of undeveloped Florida land that they are willing to sell to the government,rather than paving it over and selling it to New Yorkers who can't drive,can't vote and can't figure out that people just don't want to see geriatrics wearing weenie wraps- I am all for it If you think water politics is bad in California- you ain't seen nothing yet.