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Unit Name: Dunns Creek State Park
Acres: 6302.63 Managing
Agency:
Description:
DRP
Current Management Plan
Approved:
This park is essentially undeveloped at this time. A picnic and hiking area is located on U.S. 17,
north of Pomona Park. The mile-and-a-half hiking and bicycling trail takes visitors to the waters of
Blue Pond. Improvements to establish public access to Dunn’s Creek and the main body of the
park are underway.
Accomplishments:
Resource Management
• Reduced backlogged acreage of fire type communities.
• Designed a multi-phase timber harvest for over 900 acres of overgrown sand pine scrub and
sandhill, assembled harvest contract and bid out. Work to begin in FY 2010-11.
• Surveyed for rare and endangered reptiles and amphibians in ephemeral ponds throughout the
park and identified key gopher frog reproduction sites.
• Treated cogongrass infestations and removed other exotic plant species.
• Hired USDA to trap and remove feral hogs and coyotes.
Visitor Services
• Established new Event: Trail ride and poker run.
Capital Improvements
• Installed shell rock drive way and entrance road to support timber harvest and public access.
Other
• Removed cattle dip vat and contaminated soil.
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2004