Last summer, the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection proposed a plan to build hotels, golf courses and other amenities ...

The two-page document, entitled “Florida State Parks with additional capacity for ... The next slide depicts a map where three golf courses would be built, totaling 1,300 acres or nearly 11% ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the DEP proposed over the summer to allow intensive development in some of Florida’s most beloved state parks.

One of the original Florida state parks, opened to the public in 1935 ... Another special inhabitant of the park is the rare Barbour’s map turtle, only found in this part of the country.