Rather than quell an ongoing dispute over the future of a beloved nature center named for Marjory Stoneman Douglas and her namesake nonprofit, a move by Miami-Dade County to extend eviction talks over its idyllic location on Biscayne Bay has only deepened the mix-up.

“She would say this is ridiculous,” said Theodora Long, director of the Biscayne Nature Center nonprofit that Douglas founded after the two became friends in 1987. “She’d say get the governor on the phone!”

The confusion stems in part from a longstanding arrangement stitched together by a patchwork of legal arrangements over the years.

For decades, the nonprofit, the county and Miami-Dade school district happily co-existed in a district-owned building on county land in Crandon Park, providing free summer camps, nature walks

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