There will be a meeting at noon on Friday in the workshop meeting room at Circle B Bar Reserve to discuss the future of this popular environmental site.\n<\/p>\n
Topics will include future trails, future amenities and future nature-based recreational activities.\n<\/p>\n
This just came to our attention at the last minute because for some reason there was no public outreach by the staff.\n<\/p>\n
It is important to show up because the future of this preserve because it should be driven by the public who paid to buy the land and manage it and not just by the staff.\n<\/p>\n
Ther biggest trail project that is in the early stages of planning and evaluation would connect Circle B with the Marshall Hampton Reserve on the other side of Lake Hancock via a boardwalk across the Saddle Creek and Lake Hanock flood plain south of Winter Lake Road. Polk County is expected to partner with the Florida Department of Transportation on this one and its route will have to work around the path of a new toll road between U.S. 17 and the Polk Parkway that will involve levelling part of the oak hammock at Marshall Hampton and moving the entrance south near the recently reconstructed Lake Lena Run bridge on Thornhill Road.\n<\/p>\n
If anyone has thoughts on other trail connections, now is the time to bring them up.\n<\/p>\n
The amenities idea seems pretty open-ended but bring you suggestions.\n<\/p>\n
The idea of new nature-based activities could include occasional night-time activities to provide a chance to see fireflies, moths and other wildlife species that are either more active or more visible at night .. A bioblitz could be a fun activity, too.\n<\/p>\n
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