My name is James Smith. For those of you who read the newspaper know I am all about saving the wildlife in the Picayune Strand. The locals know it  as “The Blocks” or "The T”.

This website is dedicated to keeping everyone informed of the destruction that is taking place on the land and its inhabitants (our wildlife).

By keeping you all informed we can expose the companies and politicians involved in the massacre that is taking place on our wildlife, their futures and the future generations of our children.

So let's begin:

The state did a buyback in early 2000. Now just like all the other land in South Florida, South Florida Water Management and the Forestry Division think they own it. The state doesn’t own these 55,000 acres either; it belongs to the public, bought with tax payer money.

I have included a gallery on this site showcasing countless oil spills, oak hammocks leveled with bulldozers and 100 year old cypress’ being pilled up and burned.

I have spoken with equipment operators that were filling in prairie canal and they informed me they were “covering up gators, turtles and anything else that was in there way”.

Water Management calls this the last piece of the puzzle. Well, I am going to connect the dots that tie Water Management to Big Sugar and Politicians that have taken contributions from Big Sugar.

Since forestry has been on the site, they have caused more fires to get out of hand by there own making. They are destroying this precious habitat at a rapid rate and animals are being displaced and killed by these uncontrolled burns.

The state could fence all of this land in. The Alley and SR 29 are already fenced. All they would have to do is fence in 41 and south Belle Meade to make this a premier state park. Instead, what they are doing started out as saving the 10,000 Islands, the last 6 Water Managements meetings I’ve been to have been about taking water that was to be used for the land below US 41.

Now Collier Enterprises wants 26,000,000 Gallons of that water a day, so they can build another city to be called Big Cypress north east of the alley (right in the middle of the panther habitat!) All so they can line there pockets with more money.

I am calling on the public to get with me on this very IMPORTANT venture to HELP SAVE THE WILDLIFE IN THIS AREA and help save the land from the greedy.

Time is important, I am letting the public know that I have not stopped on this project, nor will I. I am hiring attorneys that are not intimidated by these people. So, let’s come together and fight. I’ve got a lot of ammo against these people and I intend to use all of it. I am going to spend the rest of my life exposing these animal butchers.