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Bo Beacnanie takes a fade away shot over Bronson guard A.J. Graham and Graham's teammate Hayden Bedford. :

Bronson JV boys beat Chiefland, 73-40

Story and photo by Terry WEE:
Staff Writer

 

Bronson’s junior varsity boys’ basketball team easily
defeated Chiefland 73-40 Saturday night.
The game was never in doubt. _

The Eagles led 33-18 at the half using a combination of

outside shooting and inside passing to score.

In the third period, Chiefland applied full court pressure,
but the Eagles recovered from ae surprise and continued
scoring.

Chiefland came into the game with a size advantage, but
was never able to convert its.rebounding strength into points.

Willie Elison and.A.J. Graham led Bronson in scoring

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with 16 points each while Chiefland’s Marquis Green. and
Trent Perryman lead their team with 13 points each.

Bronson Coach Kenny Thomas said his 7-2 team turned
in a good offensive and defensive performance. —

“Defense turned into good offense and we trapped
well,” Thomas said. . ENS were able to get scoring when
they turned the ball over.”

Bronson has seven or eight freshmen on the team who
were playing middle school ball last year. Thomas said they
are learning to play at the next level. He said the players
are faster and more talented at the JV level. The young

Eagles are learning to adapt.

He was proud of their performance. “T was as proud of the

team. They were ready. I have to give them credit for that.”

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‘and Wildlife Conservation ~
‘Commission (FWC)

need to be aware of.

‘ entire state of Vermont.

_and by creating financial incentives to help protect

Since 1972, 30 Florida counties have voted to tax

.communities separated by green spaces in the form
of woods, swamps and farmlands that will support

  

What does the

 

Florida hunters?

By Tony Young
Florida Fish and Wildlife feseciation

To start the new year
off, I’d like to tell you
about a recent Florida Fish

   
 

report titled “Wildlife

2060: What’s at stake for —
Florida?” The report is
based on a study by 1000
Friends of Florida — a
nonprofit organization that
monitors our state’s growth,
and it contains some pretty ©
alarming things we hunters

     
 
 
 
 
 
  

Florida has the fourth-highest population in
the country at 18 million, and this report predicts
that by the year 2060, it will double to 36 million.
Consequently, estimates are that 7 million of the
state’s 34 million total acres will be converted from
natural and rural lands to urban uses during the next
50 years. Seven million acres is equivalent to the

 
  
 
 
 
  

Black bear and wild turkey habitats may decrease
by 2 million acres by 2060. And for Florida’s more
than 200,000 deer hunters, this estimated loss of 2.7
million acres of native habitat could result in 62,790
fewer deer in Florida. On top of that, as much as
25 percent of the private lands that provide most of
the hunting leases could disappear by 2060 due to
development.

Leasing private land for hunting costs a statewide
average of around $15 an acre today. That figure
could soar to about $300 an acre by 2060!

Florida boasts one of the largest wildlife
management area systems in the country at almost 6
million acres, but what’s going to happen to it in 50
years? It will undoubtedly shrink from the pressures '"’
put on it by encroaching development, Many of
Florida’s 50,000 public-land hunters already feel the
squeeze and complain of areas being overcrowded.
How crowded aré they going to be when our
population doubles?

So what can we do about it? This state simply
can’t afford to buy all the land that needs protecting,
but it can assist property owners who own “key”
wildlife habitats by helping them manage these lands

 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

and keep these native lands wild.
One thing residents already are doing is creating ~
new taxes to preserve important local ecosystems.

 
  
 

themselves in the form of real estate “doc stamps,”
and that has generated more than $2 billion to
purchase nearly 375,000 acres of conservation lands.
And it’s important which tracts of land are
priorities to buy and put into conservation. We need |

 
  
 
 
  

wildlife.

We must minimize the effects of habitat
fragmentation by making sure large areas of
conservation lands and wetlands stay connected to
other natural landscapes. The report estimates that
2 million of the 7 million acres projected to be lost
to development by 2060 lie within a mile of existing
public conservation lands. If this happens, it will
create “islands” of natural habitat that will isolate
wildlife populations from each other. This will really
have a negative impact on species that require vast
tracts of undisturbed land to survive.

Fragmentation also will make prescribed burning,
a management technique essential for maintaining
quality wildlife habitat, even more difficult.

But by using smart-growth initiatives and
planning, we can encourage development that is
environmentally sensitive, instead of allowing
haphazard urban sprawl to occur.

Proactive strategies are best adopted at the local
level and include acquiring and protecting large
parcels of conservation lands, promoting compatible
agriculture, like cattle ranches and timber farms
(because they provide wildlife habitat), developing
conservation easements, creating tax incentives and
managing the growing development with large-scale,
land-use planning in mind.

You can get involved in advocating for wise
land-use decisions in your community to minimize
negative impacts to wildlife. You can ask whether
your city or county has a local land-acquisition
program. Are the roads there being designed and

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

    
   

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