Deadline approaching to save West Klosterman Preserve [Video]

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — The push to save a 14-acre plot of preserve land in Pinellas County is coming down to the wire, with organizers having until Sept. 15 to come up with the remaining $450,000 needed for the purchase.

For years now, a group of neighbors have been working to raise millions of dollars to buy West Klosterman Preserve off Klosterman Road in Tarpon Springs. The area is home to a number of species of plants and animals “of special concern.”  

“This is their ecosystem and that’s why we want to save it,” Tex Carter, president of WK Preservation Group, says. Carter’s nonprofit has been raising money and pushing back against potential developments on the plot of land currently owned by …