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USDA Joins Conservancy in Project to Protect Florida Ranchlands, Restore Wetland (Nature Conservancy)

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Wetland Ranching

If all goes as planned, ranchers in Florida might be raising something different... wetlands. It's a public/private partnership that would pay cattle ranchers for land easements that would allow the permanent restoration of hundreds of thousands of acres of former wetlands. Bob Bendick is Florida director of the Nature Conservancy...

In a move that would have a positive impact on restoration of the Everglades, there's a move underway in Central and Southwest Florida to take on restoration of wetlands that flow to the everglades, starting as far north as Kissimmee. The Nature Conservancy's Florida director, Bob Bendick, says it involves restoring wetlands on central and south Florida cattle ranches

The group, The Nature Conservancy is coordinating a plan to restore hundreds of thousands of acres of Florida wetlands that were long ago ditched and drained for cattle ranches. The group's Florida director, Bob Bendick says the concept behind the restoration is really pretty simple...

Restoring an agricultural environment

Environmental groups are hoping to tap a new federal farm bill for some of the money needed in a plan to restore wetlands on 330-some thousand acres of central and south Florida cattle ranches. The Nature Conservancy's Florida director, Bob Bendick, says much of the ranch land is already environmentally important...

Mixing cattle and restoration

Part of the new federal farm bill might be used to restore wetlands on potentially hundreds of thousands of acres of central and south Florida cattle ranches. Shepherding the plan is the Nature Conservancy. Its Florida director, Bob Bendick, says ranchers could be paid for restoring wetlands, promising to keep them as wetlands forever, and maintaining their function...