Joe. If you look at the closer up pic, all the way on the left is a canal (dark brown). Follow that canal down and you'll see a reddish line. Directly to the left of that reddish line is exactly where we go shooting when you come down.
I thought that was funny being that your post was right above this one.
The state also is asking for authority to pursue eminent domain to get ownership of roads and canals owned by Collier County, and 800 acres owned by the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.
Using eminent domain against the Miccosukees could become a legal test of the property rights of an American Indian tribe that the law recognizes as a sovereign nation.
The Miccosukees and the South Florida Water Management District already are in a standoff over the District's decision to use eminent domain to get ownership to 375 acres the tribe owns in Miami-Dade County.
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In the past, the status of county roads in Southern Golden Gate Estates has been tied up in concerns about retaining public access to that part of the county.
Once the roads are in public ownership, a management plan written by the Florida Division of Forestry would spell out which roads would remain open to the public and which would have to be torn out for the restoration.
Access issues came to a head last year in a deal to settle the county's 1999 lawsuit asking a judge to declare the public's right to use Miller Boulevard extension, a dirt road that connects the southern end of the Estates with U.S. 41 East.
The state owns all of the road except one parcel, owned by the Miccosukee Tribe, where the extension intersects with U.S. 41.
The deal would have allowed the public to use the extension until it had to be torn out for the restoration. In exchange, the county would have been required to turn over other parts of Miller and Lynch boulevards when the state acquired the land along the roads.
The deal fell apart over the county's attempt to get more access rights written into the agreement.
Commissioner Jim Coletta, who represented the county in the talks, said at the time that the county would get a better deal on access by going ahead with the lawsuit. The lawsuit is pending.
Bastards!