M.C. Davis spent close to 90 million dollars buying up 54,000 acres of heavily logged land in the Florida Panhandle, turning what timber companies had stripped bare into one of the largest private nature preserves in the southeastern United States.

M.C. Davis, a former gambler, invested $90 million to restore 54,000 acres of logged land in Florida, reintroducing eight million longleaf pines and bringing back a nearly lost…

M.C. Davis spent close to 90 million dollars buying up 54,000 acres of heavily logged land in the Florida Panhandle, turning what timber companies had stripped bare into one of…