The Conservation Trust for Florida is working
to preserve the horse farms, one of our favorite riding areas and the featured area
for the Horse Farm Hundred. Following is their announcement of their fall
fund raising event:
CTF Fall Fundraiser
Features John Strassburger as Keynote Speaker
The Conservation Trust for Florida (CTF) is
pleased to announce John Strassburger, former editor of The Chronicle of the Horse, as the keynote
speaker at our Fall Fundraiser & Awards Ceremony on Sunday, November
12 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Golden Hills
Golf & Turf Club in Ocala. Mrs. Chris
Machen, First Lady of the University of Florida will be the Guest
of Honor.
John Strassburger was the editor of The Chronicle of the Horse for 20 years before
retiring with his wife, Heather Bailey to Healdsburg, California to start Phoenix
Enterprises LLC, under which they operate a horse breeding and training
business and a writing/editing business. He is currently editing the five-book Chronicle Comment Series, collections of
the best columns by himself, George Morris, Denny Emerson, Victor Hugo-Vidal,
and Anne Gribbons published in the Chronicle.
CTF will feature it's Protecting Horse Country project, an educational program
to inform landowners about the tax and financial benefits of conservation
easements and other land conservation options. A copy of the brochure can be
viewed online at www.ocala.com. (Go to the
Community page and then the Equine page).
At the awards ceremony, CTF will honor one
landowner with an award for protecting their land for future generations. CTF
will feature a live art auction by some of the region's finest artists
including Gary Borse, Linda Blondheim, Peter Carolin, Diane Farris, Harriet
Huss, John Moran, Annie Pais, Jacquelyn Modesitt Schidehette, and Susan
Starling. Wine and dinner will also be served.
CTF has been
instrumental in obtaining funding from public land conservation programs and
securing conservation easements that have permanently protected some 5,000
acres of Florida’s
rural landscape. In concert with the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection/Office of Greenways and Trails, CTF also initiated the Camp Blanding
to Osceola National Forest Ecological Greenway, a 153,000-acre project that was
placed on the state’s top ranking Florida Forever land acquisition list
in 2004.
CTF is a 501(c)(3)
non-profit land trust founded in 1999 by David Carr, whose parents
were the famous sea-turtle researcher Archie Carr, and Marjorie Harris
Carr (the Cross Florida Greenway located near the Florida Horse Park is named
after her). CTF is headquartered in Micanopy, Florida. We work
with landowners on a voluntary basis to identify and broaden land
conservation options, and offer educational programs and materials to the
public.
The event is
sponsored by Alta, Inc., Barry Rutenberg Homes, Campus USA Credit Union,
Central Florida Office Plus, Ron Chandler, Cox Communications, Florida Citizens
Bank, Gainesville Health and Fitness Center, Hawthorne Medical Center, Hendrix
Consulting,
M & S Bank, David Pais Real Estate and Landscapes, the Pearl Country Store,
Petrotech, and Helen Warren - Realtor with ERA Trend Realty.
Tickets are $40
in advance and $50 at the door. For more information, call 352-466-1178 or go
to www.conserveflorida.org.
