wildlife corridor and Cypress Creek connection
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Oct 6, 2026
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This is not. There's no reason for people to think they're not gonna be able to do projects in their own camp. Their money still has to go to their own camp. This is just what makes us competitive to go after big money. And and I just don't think they are they're understanding that. Um All right, um, wildlife quarters, can you put the map I sent you?
Can you put up the I well Almara I texted you a picture? So I was just wondering about this because when I saw Saw the purchase that we did today. I went on the website. And I'm trying to um Find I went on the county site, tried to find the wildlife crossing section. uh or eco cop corridors or wildlife corridors. Cannot find it on the county website, which is not a good thing. Um Fine. Please
do you have their mic? Yeah, I'm cited. Um One of the, you know, the purposes of them is to link these big green spaces together. Right. So the animals can Move around and they're not mating with their family members and then having all kinds of disease and all that type of stuff. So And And for those who are newer, this was all part of a Standard may not allow it. By the way. So um The Starkey to Connerton.
Well Let's see. There. Okay. So the um
Cypress Creek. And then there's that concern one. And then above is Uh The one owned by Pinellas County, but you don't need to tell us what's going on with that one day. The o that piece we bought today.
Is the first part of connecting those two together. And I don't know if we've really had our eye on. that connection, but that's a pretty important connection. So Um, we need more there. And who's in charge of this and
I guess, you know, you can go through the clay shooting site at night when they're not the animals can probably go through at night. I I don't know what kind of fencing they have around there.
They're out there. Right. So
that that that good that's good. That kind of helps in a way. I mean, maybe that guy's in a conservation easement.
You should talk to him about a conservation he's meant and then Um It can be kept undeveloped even though it's the shooting range, it's still fairly undeveloped and animals can go through but
Yes. But it's not enough. Oh yeah. Well And they have to get across air and cutoffs and I don't think we have a uh under So if as we work on that road, we might want to think about a wildlife crossing underneath here and cutoff. Because you're, I mean, that's a big connection, you know, for T V. Calms in eight. Uh there I call part yeah simply fifty clearly program. Yeah by secretariat there's an under But anyway, I just want to draw your attention and that was
actually a super important piece that we got today, but it's It's not enough to really do a good job connecting. Okay, then we should have.
Oh do you want to use a larger?
Response. Just to finish up what you were talking about. So everybody, um
Make it. Did everybody get this or no?
Bye.
Maybe maybe you're coming at it.
So it's so it it's related.
Okay,
Pinellas County, there there's a difference between the airport And the the Pinellas County owns their airport.
That's that's the difference there. They it was explained to them. And
so they're mistaken there.
You want um I can make your read email
everybody has a copy of it. I do.
Okay. And there is no automatic shift after the consensus either. So I don't know who's telling them this stuff, but They have some incorrect information. So lots of work still to be done.