What is the "invasive species" in the Hudson Morse Parr Preserve?

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See http://www.districtgov.org/departmen...%201%20CIP.pdf, page 9 (under FENCES) for information on maintenance of the wildlife preserves. This document explains the annual maintenance budget, which sets your yearly maintenance assessment. It is not part of the amenities fees.

Preserves benefit everyone, not just the people who have property overlooking them; they provide a place for all the wild critters(who were here before us) to live without disturbing us, and help to maintain the water table.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission monitors the preserves and tells what must be done to maintain them (including control of invasive species, which usually refers to plants, not animals). Be grateful that you live in a community and a state that care about our environment.
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Maybe it's like the deer stuck on the Grumman property or it could be like the Chincoteague ponies or maybe New Yorkers.
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I'll ask again how is the Hudson Morse Parr Reserve the responsibiity of any CDD Perhaps its name may offer a clue as to responsibility?
If the area was named "The Rubicon Nature Preserve" in honor of Rubicon, would Rubicon or the Rubicon family be resonsible for its upkeep? We b!t*h about the Morse family owning everthing, but when something comes up where they are not responsible, we b!t*h because they are not! This is called local government taking care of its problems.

CDD1 is taking the proper steps to inform the residents with thier town hall type meeting. That is a good first step. We better get use to it.
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If the area was named "The Rubicon Nature Preserve" in honor of Rubicon, would Rubicon or the Rubicon family be resonsible for its upkeep? We b!t*h about the Morse family owning everthing, but when something comes up where they are not responsible, we b!t*h because they are not! This is called local government taking care of its problems.

CDD1 is taking the proper steps to inform the residents with thier town hall type meeting. That is a good first step. We better get use to it.
If that's the case, people in CDD1 deserve to remove that name and put in a niftier one.
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If that's the case, people in CDD1 deserve to remove that name and put in a niftier one.
Yeah, that seems to be the current thinking is this country. If you don't like the name, just change it and erase history.....
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Clearly some kind of plant or vush. The longer they put the removal off the more difficult it will become and more costly.
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Yeah, that seems to be the current thinking is this country. If you don't like the name, just change it and erase history.....
I don't think Jennifer Parr's son's very long name inspires a particularly awesome sense of history that needs to be "preserved," as it were. Just more like... I don't know, self-aggrandisement
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I don't think Jennifer Parr's son's very long name inspires a particularly awesome sense of history that needs to be "preserved," as it were. Just more like... I don't know, self-aggrandisement
Shall we rename Morris Blvd as well? This road seems to fit your definition.
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niftier
I forgot about the word nifty. I use to say it all the time. Where did it go?
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Shall we rename Morris Blvd as well? This road seems to fit your definition.
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How about renaming it "The Unbuildable Swamp Preserve"?
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Shall we rename Morris Blvd as well? This road seems to fit your definition.
Has already been renamed.. It's MORSE BLVD.
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Interesting in one report it says there are 50,000 invasive species in the US and one local online media reported that it will cost $100,000 to remove this mystery species. Several times over the past years laborers were brought in to manually cut back several feet of growth that surrounds this preserve. It helped the view for homes that abutted the preserve and in year with low rainfall they removed growth that could have resulted in a major fire if struck by lightning with almost certain damage to those same homes. Since there are rules that regulate what can and can't be done in these preserves as set forth by the South West Florida Water Management District, I am sure they must have the final say about what can/must be done about this "invasive species " whatever it is. If you live in CDD 1, take a look at your annual Sumter County Tax statement and you will find that you are paying the SWFWMD an annual tax. Maybe they should be paying for the removal of the invasive species that has moved into an area that they set rules for and supposedly manage.
Hancle: This is what I was getting at not so much the name which to me was a beginning of an investigation but not the end of... The Mayor says CDD1 owns it but who controls it and what relief is available for areas set aside by the state as being reserves...are their state funds, etc available
My real question is what are residents responsibilities as to properties in The Villages? what exactly should our amenities finance? And what role do our state/school taxes play in all of this?


For example the amenities fees have been paying to finance lawsuits and I often wondered why our Liabilty Insurance Policies have not been tapped ?
Our amenities fees have paid for what have been argued to be associated with Project program. Tree cutting etc

I get the hint that some poster felt my post was anti-developer which was not the case at all. Its never been about the developer for me its all about business (period)

So my intent was about knowing our financial obligations and preventing some other entity from shifting their burden to us. Secondly to not simply pay the bill but to look for financial resources available to us. I say this because if such practices continue unchallenged residents are one day going to face financial obligation, not ours, that they may well not be able to afford. and if they are ours we better have accounting methods to meet those future obligations

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Interesting in one report it says there are 50,000 invasive species in the US and one local online media reported that it will cost $100,000 to remove this mystery species. Several times over the past years laborers were brought in to manually cut back several feet of growth that surrounds this preserve. It helped the view for homes that abutted the preserve and in year with low rainfall they removed growth that could have resulted in a major fire if struck by lightning with almost certain damage to those same homes. Since there are rules that regulate what can and can't be done in these preserves as set forth by the South West Florida Water Management District, I am sure they must have the final say about what can/must be done about this "invasive species " whatever it is. If you live in CDD 1, take a look at your annual Sumter County Tax statement and you will find that you are paying the SWFWMD an annual tax. Maybe they should be paying for the removal of the invasive species that has moved into an area that they set rules for and supposedly manage.
I have to agree. I believe everyone in Sumter pays this tax. If the tax dollars aren't used for a purpose such as this, what are they used for?
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CDD1 owns it but who controls it and what relief is available for areas set aside by the state as being reserves...are their state funds, etc available
My real question is what are residents responsibilities as to properties in The Villages? what exactly should our amenities finance? And what role do our state/school taxes play in all of this?
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Florida's State Wildlife Grants Program is supported by the federal State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Program, which provides annually appropriated funding to every state and territory. This is a matching grants program, which provides financial support for projects that address conservation needs identified in the State Wildlife Action Plan.

For more information about Florida's State Wildlife Grants Program, please contact:

Andrea Alden
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620 S. Meridian Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1600
Florida's State Wildlife Grants Program
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