Manatee County leaders have voted to buy two new pieces of land with the county's voter-backed conservation fund. A purchase of several acres of forest land at the edge of Rye Preserve, a nature ...

Manatee County is using voter-approved conservation funds to purchase 4.5 acres of forested land around the Rye Cemetery and Rye Preserve in Parrish to shield the area from future development.

Two more purchases are gaining steam as part of an effort to protect land in Manatee County for environmental purposes. Commissioners added the Gamble Creek Preserve and Crooked River Ranch to its ...

Big Waters unveiled its 2030 Conservation Plan in April. It’s the first strategic plan for the nonprofit, and it lays out 247 ...

Manatee County has four rivers! The Braden, Manatee, Little Manatee, and the Myakka. All four still have adjoining lands worth safeguarding.

County officials have so far made three land purchases with the conservation fund approved by voters in 2020: $15.5 million for a 98-acre expansion of Emerson Point Preserve in Palmetto, $11.2 ...

Manatee County voters will have the opportunity this fall to create a new program that would purchase and preserve open land, the first of its kind in Manatee County. According to the U.S. Census ...

As one of the top ten fastest-growing counties in Florida, Manatee County has seen a lot of rapid development. However, Julie Morris from the Florida Conservation Group wants to make sure certain ...

The Manatee County Commission approved a developer’s request to release conservation easements for about 10 acres of wetland buffers around Cooper Creek in the University Park area. Cooper Creek is a ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — After slight changes, Manatee County commissioners approved a request from a major developer to release conservation easements within the Cooper Creek watershed. In a 4 to ...