The state of Florida has agreed to purchase land in the panhandle to add to the Aucilla Wildlife Management Area. The Florida Cabinet this week approved buying 2,800 acres in Jefferson County from the Nature Conservancy.
The Nature Conservancy originally bought the property because of its significant resource value and because it forms a two-mile boundary with the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and a three-mile boundary with the Aucilla Wildlife Management Area. The property is important to the water quality of not only the St. Marks River but Apalachee Bay and the estuary at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. The land also provides habitat for an abundance of wildlife including the Florida black bear, river otter, Eastern indigo snake and Flatwoods salamander.
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