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>The Florida Cabinet on June 12 approved *swapping* this 324-acre parcel of Withlacoochee State Forest for 861 acres of timberland in Levy County, according to state documents.

Poor journalists. It must be hard trying to manufacture outrage when they’re obligated to provide the truth somewhere in the article

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the outrage is that the land they are giving to the (foreign) golf club owners is specifically state-managed conservation land that was not properly vetted according to law, and in return they are receiving land that does not meet the same criteria:

> The land the company is offering in return is isolated from other conservation land, not on the state’s land acquisition wish list and not part of a wildlife corridor.

there is plenty of true and correct outrage.

I'm from Florida, the article is correct - it's an awful deal. The ecology of Florida is capital A Amazing, so it's a shame to see it get flattened for a private golf course. Unfortunately the heat causes a lot of the aged (voting) population of Florida to not engage or mostly be annoyed by the unique gift they've been given. Regardless politicians are financially incentivized for these giveaways and the hoi polloi isn't.

> It must be hard trying to manufacture outrage when they’re obligated to provide the truth somewhere in the article

It’s also hard to manufacture outrage when the truth itself is pretty shitty. It basically manufactures itself at that point.

Unless you think the land swap aspect makes what they said (a) not true, and (b) not bad? If so, you are mistaken.

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