Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refgue Highlands and Polk Counties, Florida

Download or read book Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refgue Highlands and Polk Counties, Florida written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of the Interior and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is a unit of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) Complex and is administered by and co-managed with Pelican Island and Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuges, colloquially termed the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex (PIC) (Figure 1). Lake Wales Ridge NWR (Figure 2) is one of the first refuges of its kind in the National Wildlife Refuge System (Refuge System) to target community level conservation - specifically scrub habitat, a unique vegetation type largely restricted to the Central Florida ridge systems occurring on the remnants of ancient beach and sand dune systems from Ocala National Forest to southern Highlands County, Florida.