complete agenda - Florida Department of Environmental Protection

V. Infrastructure/Management Resources
� If gain more staff, would need more equipment. Need more staff and funding. No positions going
along with recreation construction and amenities
� Future construction of new facilities/cabins will improve sanitary facilities. Increased staff and
funding would allow for more park improvements and may allow for better recreational use.
� Only three staff (and one is OPS) are assigned to this property. This is absolutely too few people
to accommodate the growing demands of a developing new park plus address the expectations for
natural resource management work. The park manager and his small staff and small group of
volunteers should be commended for their truly remarkable efforts to manage visitor services
while addressing resource management work to burn and to treat invasive plants and animals.
� Build-out - 5 specs/mgr/admin. Currently understaffed! Don’t’ work your park manager to death.
He and his staff are extremely dedicated.
VI. Managed Area Uses
� However note flatwoods that are in good shape, may be future site for cabins.
� Work closely with SWFWMD in planning trail connections with Green Swamp. High peak
carrying capacities in CCSP will be higher than in the preserve. Need to develop ways to control
numbers in the Green Swamp. Public access to Withlacoochee River for canoeing (SWFWMD) –
This stretch of river is not conducive to developed public use!!
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