New plan to save endangered woodpecker set for approval in Collier
Collier County commissioners are set to vote Tuesday on whether to move ahead with a new regulatory scheme aimed at protecting red-cockaded woodpeckers in North Belle Meade. Backers of the plan say it will plug a permitting gap big enough for a landowner with a bulldozer to clear land without complying with the Endangered Species Act, but opponents say the plan either goes too far or doesn’t go far enough.
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