Public lands support Florida families – they helped build ours

Public lands support Florida families – they helped build ours

By Joe Murphy  When my wife and I adopted our son and daughter, it was not amusement parks that bonded us as a family in those fragile early days. It was wild, natural, free places. It was public land. It was parks, rivers, forests, preserves, trails and other places where we could camp, fish and watch nature. Many of these places were purchased through land-conservation efforts such as the Florida Forever program. My loyalty to such programs co…