{"id":358558,"date":"2026-07-31T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:35:07","slug":"more-than-160-acres-of-land-in-putnam-county-now-permanently-preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358558\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 160 acres of land in Putnam County now permanently preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PUTNMAN COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Officials with the North Florida Land Trust said that 162 acres of land is now permanently preserved in Putnam County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The land has been preserved following a $400,000 purchase by the North Florida Land Trust and their partners, from the Currie family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Currie family used the land for hunting and outdoor recreation, providing upkeep through prescribed burnings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the land is surrounded by already protected land in the Marjorie Harris Cross Florida Greenway, and fills the gap in a priority preservation area by the North Florida Land Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The land purchased is home to wetlands and the critically endangered gopher tortoise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUTNMAN COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Officials with the North Florida Land Trust said that 162 acres of land&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[146235,146237,28,30,29,146234,146236,42858,34927],"class_list":["post-358558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-162-acres","tag-currie-family","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-land-preserved","tag-marjorie-harris-cross-florida-greenway","tag-north-florida-land-trust","tag-putnam-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358558","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=358558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}