# Florida Forever

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{{Short description|Land conservation program}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2025}}
{{Update|date=December 2024}}
'''Florida Forever''' is a land [conservation program](/source/Conservation_movement) in [Florida](/source/Florida). In 1999, the [Florida Legislature](/source/Florida_Legislature) passed the Florida Forever Act which was signed into law by former [Florida governor](/source/List_of_governors_of_Florida), [Jeb Bush](/source/Jeb_Bush), which would lead to the creation of the Florida Forever program.<ref name="Northwest Florida Water Management District">{{cite web | title=Florida Forever Land Acquisition Work Plans | website=Northwest Florida Water Management District | url=https://www.nwfwater.com/Lands/Land-Acquisition/Florida-Forever-Land-Acquisition-Work-Plans | access-date=2020-07-24}}</ref><ref name="Higgins Chapin Connerly Miller 2012 p. 246">{{cite book | last=Higgins | first=H.T. | last2=Chapin | first2=T.S. | last3=Connerly | first3=C.E. | last4=Miller | first4=P.D. | last5=Gurran | first5=N. | title=Growth Management in Florida: Planning for Paradise | publisher=Ashgate Publishing Limited | series=Urban Planning and Environment | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-4094-8734-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lZ8YW6uw2JQC&pg=PA246 | access-date=2020-07-24 | page=246}}</ref> Since the program was created in July 2001, the state of Florida has purchased more than 1 million acres of land with a little over $3.8&nbsp;billion (as of July 2020).<ref name="Florida Forever 2020">{{cite web | title=Florida Department of Environmental Protection | website=Florida Forever | date=2020-05-15 | url=https://floridadep.gov/lands/environmental-services/content/florida-forever | access-date=2020-07-24}}</ref> Approximately 2.6&nbsp;million acres have been purchased under the program and its predecessor, '''Preservation 2000''' (P2000).<ref>[http://www.dep.state.fl.us/lands/fl_forever.htm Florida Forever] Florida Department of Environmental Protection</ref>

According to one 2011 [poll](/source/Opinion_poll), the program is popular and few Floridians favor cutting the funding for it.<ref name=potteiger>{{cite news|last=Potteiger|first=Jason|title=Few Support Cutting Florida Forever Act|url=http://apollsteronpolling.com/2011/04/21/few-support-cutting-florida-forever-act/|accessdate=April 13, 2012|newspaper=A Polster on Polling|date=April 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707152335/http://apollsteronpolling.com/2011/04/21/few-support-cutting-florida-forever-act/|archive-date=July 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2020, the program received $100 million as part of HB 5001.<ref name="Tampa Bay Times 2020">{{cite web | title=These laws go into effect in Florida today | website=Tampa Bay Times | date=2020-07-01 | url=https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/07/01/these-laws-go-into-effect-in-florida-today/ | access-date=2020-07-24}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110803083046/http://nwfwmd.state.fl.us/rmd/swim/fla_forever_grants/fla_forever_grants.htm Florida Forever capital improvement grants]

Category:Environmental organizations based in Florida
Category:Nature conservation organizations based in the United States
Category:Protected areas of Florida
Category:2001 establishments in Florida

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