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Parks and Public Lands Win at the Polls

10,000 Birds

Florida Amendment 9, Ban Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling. Second, Amendment 2 required a two-thirds vote of each chamber of the state legislature to authorize the transfer, sale, or disposal of land under the control of the state agriculture or environmental protection departments.”. Election Results = PASSED with 82.87% voter support.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

10,000 Birds

In the spring (when they look like they do — the males, that is — in the photo on the left, above) they fly more than six thousand miles from the Amazon Basin to the Arctic, via Florida and Ohio. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences.

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