Discovering Hickey’s Creek Mitigation Park
Florida cinchweed ( Pectis linearifolia ); photo by A. Karim By Annisa Karim This May, the Florida Native Plant Society's 34th Annual Conference will be held at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. With the Annual Conference taking place in our backyard, we have the opportunity to give a “behind the scenes” tour of some of our favorite places. As usual, conference organizers have arranged for numerous field trips to take place on the Thursday before and the Sunday after the Conference (May 15th and 18th, respectively). Among these trips is a visit to Lee County’s Hickey’s Creek Mitigation Park , which I will lead, alongside notable author Dr. Walter Kingsley Taylor . Tarflower ( Bejaria racemosa ); photo by A. Karim Hickey’s Creek Mitigation Park (HCMP) consists of 862 acres and is co-managed by the Lee County Department of Parks and Recreation and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The Park consists of a mosaic of both hum...