During a preliminary brainstorming session today about a planned multi-day nature festival in Polk County next year, one of the possible field trips that was discussed was bringing people to Lake Blue.
It is one of the few Winter Haven Ridge preserves there are.
It was on the vanguard of the Scrub Lupine recovery effort and by next year it will be clearer how that's going.
It demonstrates the challenge of managing scrub in an urban environment. The mechanical treatment is still controversial it seems, since I was told last weekend that there are no plans to repeat that in the south tract. There are still rumors of fire for the cleared sections of the north tract.
It also will present a chance to see some scrub plants and familiarize people wioth scrub in general in a quick and convenient way.
Nothing's committed yet, but it's an interesting idea.
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- middle-aged wildlife steward who likes to write about natural history.