Scrub is probably the most endangered habitat type left in Florida.
It's an amazing place. The scrub jays will come down and land on your head.
Hopefully in the end, we will have citizens who are better educated about the environment and the importance of protecting it.
We've given Lake Helen lots of trees. Also, using our new model, we were able to help them buy lots of trees we could never have grown.
Over the years, we produced about 2,000 trees, shrubs and other plant material per year. That doesn't include sea oats: we grew about 70,000 sea oats over the past three years.
We couldn't justify investing in improvements knowing we were going to have to move away. So when we looked at the economics, this is much better.
If we don't do that, we will be Broward County, and you will too.
Whenever someone removes trees without a permit and things like that, they have to pay fees.
The only difference between Broward County and Volusia County is 30 years.
We've had that problem before -- there was a cluster of deaths in Ormond back in 1998. We never really understood what was going on.
