{"id":188455,"date":"2026-03-12T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188455\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:46:09","slug":"new-nature-preserve-opens-in-this-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188455\/","title":{"rendered":"New nature preserve opens in this city"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A new nature preserve, called Rosser Lakes<\/a>, opened this week in Port St. Lucie. It’s the first property acquired in the city’s Naturally PSL Land Bank \u2014 a new initiative to purchase land to conserve and protect it. <\/p>\n

The Rosser Lakes Preserve<\/a> is located right off Southwest Rosser Boulevard, east of Interstate 95. <\/p>\n

WATCH BELOW: New nature preserve opens in Port St. Lucie <\/p>\n

Rosser Lakes Preserve offers fishing, walking, biking trails<\/p>\n

The park comprises 105 acres of walking and biking trails and two lakes for recreation. <\/p>\n

Scott Samples with the City of Port St. Lucie said about 72 percent of the city’s developable land is already being built. <\/p>\n

To protect more of it, the city created a land bank and already has 273 acres for conservation, including Rosser Lakes. <\/p>\n

In addition, the city also created a community trust to help with fundraising efforts to acquire new land. <\/p>\n

“This is a result directly of us talking to residents and asking them what they wanted, and this is the fulfillment of that,\u201d said Samples. <\/p>\n

WPTV Port St Lucie reporter Tyler Hatfield spent Wednesday listening to neighbors using the park. <\/p>\n

Glen Sabat, a Port St Lucie resident, spent the morning fishing. <\/p>\n

Sabat said he’s excited that the city is protecting land from more development. <\/p>\n

“It’s what Florida’s about. Everyone moves here away from the cities to get to something like this, and we don’t want it to go away,” Sabat said.<\/p>\n

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