Wildlife Corridor would stretch from the Everglades to the Gulf

With Florida now passing New York in population, there's a push for a new corridor right up the center of the state. It's not a highway, but some believe it's even more critical to the state's future. It's called the Florida Wildlife Corridor. Supporters made a 70-day trek on the proposed route to bring attention to the idea. It would be a continuous stretch of green from the Everglades to the Gulf. They say it could aid the success and survival of species like the Black Bear and Florida Panther that thrive by ranging across hundreds of miles. "This is a real opportunity that we can still achieve," says Carlton Ward, a Tampa wildlife photographer who helped lead the expedition earlier this spring. They want the legislature to buy endangered land for preservation and negotiate conservation easements with ranchers to keep millions of acres in cattle and crops, rather than houses and roads...more