We’re still riding the high of this week’s Stuart protest in opposition to damaging development in Florida state parks proposed by the so-called Great Outdoors Initiative. Hundreds of you joined us at Flagler Park in downtown Stuart — as hundreds more gathered in other locations around the state — to fight the sneak attack that would have made environmentally sensitive spaces vulnerable. It is the vigilance of people like you who will ensure that these places remain wild for generations to come.
We invite you to relive the people power from that day by viewing the video and images here.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.

Friends of the Everglades and allies host a protest and press conference calling for an end to the Great Outdoors Initiative, a plan proposed by Gov. DeSantis’ Florida Department of Environmental Protection to add development to nine Florida state parks, on August 27, 2024, at Flagler Park in Stuart.