This section of Floridahabitat.org discusses real world examples of habitat planning and wildlife friendly design at the landscape and site level.
- Ave Maria (Tool - Rural Lands Stewardship Area)
- Babcock Ranch (Tool - one time large parcel acquisition with some RLSA-like componets for development area)
- Bay County - Project to map existing regulatory conservation easements (Tool - Better use of existing regulatory conservation easements)
- The Brooks - Lee County Florida (Tools - Wetland Restoration, hydrologic reconnection and habitat inclusive design features)
- Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (Tool - Overll landscape level planning framework and logic) For more information contact: Lisa Beever at: lbeever@swfrpc.org
- Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park Restoration Projects - (Tool -State FDEP Restoration Efforts on State Lands) For more information contact: Annette.Nielsen@dep.state.fl.us
- Harmony - Central Florida's (Osceola County) new conservation community (Tools - Overall wildlife friendly design features, e.g., great lake buffering aspects, good set-asides and some internal habitat linkage features). 11,000 acres of pristine and protected land with two 500-acre lakes. The entire community is Dark Sky® Compliant giving many people a chance to enjoy a real night sky for the first time. Has as its philosophy that people live better when they live in regular contact with animals and nature.
- Lee County Master Mitigation Plan and the Island Park Regional Mitigation Site at Estero Marsh Preserve (Tools - Large-scale landscape/habitat restorative planning, linked to development impacts mitigative processes and larger subregional/regional ecosystem linkages and quality enhancements)
- Madera (Green Community Development, Gainesville, Florida - (Tools - Good internal design for wildlife friedly development using stormwater design in with the habitat/wildlife friendly features).
- Oscar Scherer State Park - Reducing Impacts of Development While Sustaining Habitat and Wildlife
- West Bay Sector Plan (Tools - Sector Planning and Subregional Regional General (Corp) and Ecosystem Management (DEP) permits using Landscape level planning approach for the protection of the West Bay from the impacts of planned future development impacts)
