Environmentally Endangered Lands Programs are bond funded wildland conservation efforts in Florida, USA.
[1] Palm Beach County started its land acquisition program in 1991 with a $100 million bond.
[1] In 1987, voters in Hillsborough County, Florida, overwhelmingly chose to increase taxes and create the Environmental Lands Acquisition and Protection Program (ELAPP).
Several species originated in the West Indies including Ficus, gumbo-limbo, lancewood and paradise-trees.
Other species include white-crowned pigeon, Spike rush, sawgrass, crayfish, marsh rabbit, deer and Florida panther; as well as colicroot (Aletris bracteata), the lavender ground orchid Bletia purpurea and Pinguicula pumila, a dwarf butterwort.
Winged sumac, which provides red fruit for small warblers and other wildlife in the fall, pawpaws (Asimina), Saw palmettos, cocoplum, wax myrtle, tarflower (Befaria racemosa) as well as the endangered quailberry (Crossopetalum ilicifolium).
Even smaller parcels can host coontie, sabal palm, partridge pea and a native cactus: Opuntia humifusa.
locustberry saw palmetto, coontie, a native cycad used by pioneers to make starch, wild poinsettia and lantana.