{"id":237076,"date":"2026-04-18T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:58:06","slug":"a-land-remembered-halts-plans-to-film-at-fort-de-soto-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237076\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Land Remembered&#8217; halts plans to film at Fort De Soto after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6104188822_de8c0f2880_h.jpg\" class=\"attachment-257262 size-257262 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFort De Soto Park \/\/ Credit: Pinellas County Flickr <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tListen:<\/p>\n<p>A TV series based on the book \u2018A Land Remembered\u2019 will no longer film at Fort DeSoto Park in Pinellas County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after the plans faced an outcry from environmental advocates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/tampa-bay\/2026\/04\/15\/a-land-remembered-fort-de-soto-fiming-canceled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>, producers say they will no longer pursue a permit to film at the park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beth Forys is the President of St. Petersburg Audubon and a professor at Eckerd College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I actually saw the plans, I got very worried. One of the areas, it looked to me like they were going to have to drive numerous vehicles kind of through the dunes and maybe on a bicycle path.\u201d Forys told WMNF.<\/p>\n<p>She says she\u2019s relieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, of course, loved the book A Land Remembered, as do members of St. Petersburg Audubon and others who work in the environmental community, but Fort De Soto is such a precious environment. It\u2019s one of our last barrier islands that isn\u2019t completely developed. So it\u2019s really important to keep it as natural as possible.\u201d Forys said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/100064872034787\/posts\/1394726019366453\/?rdid=7UGnXzD8uxfYdao0&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F18fyqhYc2j%2F#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a Facebook post<\/a>, St. Petersburg Audubon expressed concern about filming on fragile dunes and beaches, beach driving, and the use of cattle, pigs, and horses in the sensitive lands.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organization says that the filming would have potentially impacted plovers, oystercatchers, gopher tortoises, sea turtles, and dune plants<\/p>\n<p>A representative for \u2018A Land Remembered\u2019 did not respond by WMNF\u2019s deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort De Soto Park \/\/ Credit: Pinellas County Flickr Listen: A TV series based on the book \u2018A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105406,202,204,203,199,201,200,1459],"class_list":{"0":"post-237076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-fort-desoto","9":"tag-st-pete","10":"tag-st-pete-headlines","11":"tag-st-pete-news","12":"tag-st-petersburg","13":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","14":"tag-st-petersburg-news","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}