Your fellow CTF supporters toured Silver Springs Forest Conservation Area earlier this year, and the group’s knowledge, good humor, and passion for protecting our natural world gives us hope for the future.

The Conservation Trust for Florida is looking ahead, and there is a lot to look forward to. We know that there is still time to play a meaningful role in shaping Florida’s conservation future. The wild and rural Florida you love is still out there, and we are working to keep it that way. The key is to continue working at a landscape scale.

Most of us can only imagine “Old Florida” but Bud Adams wrote the book on it. In his book “The Old Florida,” he recounts the details of his life and shares his wisdom. He was a Florida Cattleman through and through.

A conservation easement on the Palaez family’s 1,375-acre cattle ranch keeps their land in agricultural production and protects important habitat near the Everglades Headwaters.