Eric Draper
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@EricDraper
Environmental finance & bike/pedestrian safety. Accomplished water, wildlife and climate advocate. Repurposed director of gold medal winning Fl Park Service.
Crippling funding sources for essential services that Florida needs isn’t fiscal intelligence; it’s foolishness. These tax proposals would devastate the very water infrastructure projects and policies FL depends on, and communities like Shore Acres would feel the impacts first.
Some jerk wrote a NYT essay claiming industrial agriculture is actually good for forests and the climate. That jerk is me! Here’s a free link: nytimes.com/2024/12/13/opi…
Years before a secret plan to add golf courses to state parks would rock Florida, a clue about how it could unfold was dropped in conversation in Washington, D.C. The event: A Republican donor dinner. The guest of honor: President Trump. w/ @MaxChesnes tampabay.com/news/environme…
“If they get away with this, they can get away with anything. Any piece of land becomes available for a trade to a developer.” #Florida #Environment #FlStateParks floridaphoenix.com/2024/09/19/han… via @FLPhoenixNews
Today, we — the hosts, reporters, producers, digital content creators and others — of WLRN are proud to announce our intent to unionize with @SAGAFTRA, becoming the first public radio station in Florida to do so. #WeMakeWLRN
What might have happened in both these cases if not for local journalists? Nothing. My @TB_Times column about the importance of a vibrant local newsroom. tampabay.com/news/environme…
As the legislator who wrote and passed the environmental Florida Forever bill, this is not how conservation lands are supposed to be treated. The lands are to remain in conservation forever, thus the name. There was a surplusing process provided but this isn't it
It's not just the Hernando forest that could be at stake. Environmental experts say the unusual process of this deal, where a developer asked the state for a land trade and the state complied, could set a new precedent.
This week @mahoneysthename and I drove to both land parcels involved in this deal. Enviro experts argue the land the state is giving up, part of the Withlacoochee State Forest, is more valuable for conservation Left: Land the state is giving to Cabot Right: The land it's getting
