The embittering controversy over Split Oak Forest is whether to allow a major highway to be built across its southern pinelands in exchange for a developer’s donation of hundreds of adjoining wildlands acres and a road builder’s contribution of millions of dollars for caretaking. This week, the longtime custodian of Split Oak Forest, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, .
One helicopter pilot escaped with only minor injuries early Saturday afternoon, when his chopper was forced to plunge into the calm waters east of the Cape Florida Lighthouse at Bill
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