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Unit Name: Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park<br />

Acres: 42,463.58 Managing<br />

Agency:<br />

Description:<br />

DRP<br />

Current Management Plan<br />

Approved:<br />

The preserve <strong>of</strong>fers hiking, fishing, paddling and observing wildlife in the park's many natural<br />

communities, including mangrove forests, marshes, scrub habitats and pine flatwoods. Portions <strong>of</strong><br />

two paddle trail systems wind through the park. Hikers and bird-watchers can access Charlotte<br />

Harbor's upland areas at pedestrian walkthroughs available in each section <strong>of</strong> the park.<br />

Accomplishments:<br />

Resource Management<br />

• Developed the Coral Creek and Alligator Creek Phase III Habitat Restoration Plans for<br />

hydrologic and habitat restoration work.<br />

• Restored over 1,500 acres and additional 120 acres underway at various locations.<br />

• Continued ambitions exotic species management and control program.<br />

• Completed a three-year research and stabilization project at Big Mound Key, a National Register<br />

Historic Site.<br />

Visitor Services<br />

• Record attendance in FY 2009-10.<br />

Capital Improvements<br />

• Designed new trailhead parking area for Cape Coral Management Unit<br />

167<br />

2007

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