Green Empire: The St. Joe Company and the Remaking of Florida's Panhandle - Hardcover

Ziewitz, Kathryn; Wiaz, June

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813026970 ISBN 13: 9780813026978

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2004

Synopsis

A bold corporate and environmental history, Green Empire examines the intersection of one of the most ambitious players in Florida's real estate market with the state's last frontier - the quiet natural spaces of the Panhandle. Since the Great Depression, the St. Joe Company (formerly the St. Joe Paper Company) has been Florida's largest landowner, a forestry and transportation conglomerate whose Influence has been commensurate with its holdings. The company owns nearly one million acres, mainly in northwestern Florida, where undeveloped coastal and riverside landscape boast some of the state's most scenic and ecologically diverse areas. For 60 years, the company focused on growing trees, turning them into paper, and managing its ancillary businesses. In the late 1990s, the company shifted directions: it sold its paper mill, changed its name, and launched a concerted drive to turn its natural-resource assets into greater profits. Today the St. Joe Company is a critical and fiscally powerful force in the real-estate development of northwest Florida, with access to the most influential people in government.

About this title

Review:

"A comprehensive look at Florida's biggest landowner - and Florida's future. A must-read for all Florida taxpayers - who will foot some of the bill." - Julie Hauserman, St. Petersburg Times"

About the Author:

Kathryn Ziewitz is an environmental writer whose work has appeared in Sierra, Florida Naturalist, and High County News. She has served as director of the St. Andrews Project, a grassroots effort to revitalize a waterfront community in Panama City, and she is currently a high school teacher in Boy County, Florida. June Wiaz has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her most recent writing includes a chapter in The Book of the Everglades. Environmental history/Florida history

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0813026970
• ISBN 13: 9780813026978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416