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Council to discuss $900,000 FWC grant for burrowing owl habitat protection
Cape Coral City Council will vote on a memorandum of agreement with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Florida Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida Inc. for burrowing owl habitat protection, a $900,000 grant, during its Wednesday meeting. According to the city’s background information, the grant funding will be limited to property acquisition costs, “including but not limited to, appraisals, surveys, title costs, and initial maintenance costs.” The city, FWC and Cape Coral Friends of Wildlife will coordinate the maintenance, monitoring and reporting of each purchased site. “This is the first time that FWC is giving out this grant for burrowing owl habitat. It all came about when Carl Veaux, former president of CCFW and current board member of CCWT, began advocating FWC to use mitigation funds to purchase owl habitat. Carl and other CCFW ...
