After development scare, the future of USF's forest preserve looks scary good | Tampa

It only takes about five minutes of walking away from the traffic on Fletcher Avenue, but there’s a spot along the sandhill ridge in the University of South Florida (USF) Forest Preserve where the sound of cars and Tampa’s concrete jungle starts to fade away. The stillness of the roughly 500-acre, gingerbread man-shaped habitat becomes the dominant feature, and then the nuance of the wild space starts to come into focus.

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