This draft represents an outline appropriate to ‘cut-and-paste’ for future grant applications to support aspects of Base Camp Sarasota:

Grant funds will be used to develop and produce the architectural design plan for Base Camp Sarasota—a biological field station to be built in the Carlton Reserve on five acres contributed to the project by Sarasota County. Base Camp Sarasota will attract some of the world’s foremost scientists and ecologists to study the unique subtropical ecosystems of Southwest Florida, providing a “base camp” for research and education that will guide future land use policy and environmental decisions based on both economics and biology. Base Camp Sarasota is part of a larger initiative known as the Florida Institute for Integrative Land Use being jointly developed by Sarasota County Government, New College of Florida, the University of Florida, and the Florida House Institute.
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