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HB 1421 requires state land management agencies to allow cattle grazing on all state lands “determined to be suitable.” The bill does not define what factors would be considered in determining which lands are suitable.
We need you to join us in reminding our legislators that Floridians do not want our state parks, state forests and wildlife management areas turned over to private hands. Like hotels, golf courses, and pickleball courts, intensive private agriculture is not compatible with our world-class state parks and publicly owned conservation lands.
Lands leased to private industry for cattle grazing would likely be closed off from public access, robbing Floridians of the ability to use lands the state acquired on their behalf. Plus, additional cattle on conservation lands could have harmful water quality impacts, especially in impaired springsheds like Rainbow Springs, Silver Springs, and the Suwannee River basin. We cannot afford to take land the state has already used public funds to acquire, conserve, and manage and give it over to private agriculture while our springs, rivers, lakes and estuaries are already suffering from pollution.
We need you to make your voice heard and tell your legislators to leave our public conservation lands accessible and free from incompatible commercial activity. Call and email members of the committee before Wednesday and ask them to vote NO on HB 1421: Cattle Grazing on State Land by Rep. Albert.
Be sure to personalize the email message and add your own subject line like “Vote No HB 1421.”
HB 1421 requires state land management agencies to allow cattle grazing on all state lands “determined to be suitable.” The bill does not define what factors would be considered in determining which lands are suitable.
We need you to join us in reminding our legislators that Floridians do not want our state parks, state forests and wildlife management areas turned over to private hands. Like hotels, golf courses, and pickleball courts, intensive private agriculture is not compatible with our world-class state parks and publicly owned conservation lands.
Lands leased to private industry for cattle grazing would likely be closed off from public access, robbing Floridians of the ability to use lands the state acquired on their behalf. Plus, additional cattle on conservation lands could have harmful water quality impacts, especially in impaired springsheds like Rainbow Springs, Silver Springs, and the Suwannee River basin. We cannot afford to take land the state has already used public funds to acquire, conserve, and manage and give it over to private agriculture while our springs, rivers, lakes and estuaries are already suffering from pollution.
We need you to make your voice heard and tell your legislators to leave our public conservation lands accessible and free from incompatible commercial activity. Call and email members of the committee before Wednesday and ask them to vote NO on HB 1421: Cattle Grazing on State Land by Rep. Albert.
Be sure to personalize the email message and add your own subject line like “Vote No HB 1421.”