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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 25 > Florida has $1.75B deal to preserve Everglades

Florida has $1.75B deal to preserve Everglades

State will buy sugar producer in ‘monumental’ protection effort

By Brian Skoloff / The Bulletin
June 25, 2008

WELLINGTON, Fla. — In one of the biggest conservation deals in U.S. history, the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar reached a tentative agreement Tuesday to get out of the business and sell its nearly 300 square miles in the Everglades to the state of Florida for $1.75....

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