Current
water level at Fisheating Creek
Cypress Knee Museum
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Our Creeks is a Florida non-profit
membership organization made up of
interested citizens and groups
devoted to the general purpose of
conservation of natural resources,
especially creeks and small waterways.
Our focus is primarily in SW Florida,
but our scope reaches throughout Florida
and even to the entire United States
of America.
Save
Our Creeks was organized in 1989 in an
effort to save Fisheating Creek from
being closed to the public by Lykes
Brothers. This landmark case resulted in
the preservation of 18,000 acres
surrounding a beautiful cypress-lined
creek winding 52 miles from its
headwaters in Highlands County through
Glades County all the way to its mouth
on Lake Okeechobee. This case has set
important legal precedence in protecting
other waterways in Florida. To this day,
Fisheating Creek remains one of the most
pristine waterways in Florida and
crucial habitat to endangered panther
and many other threatened and endangered
species, such as the Florida black bear
and swallowtail kites. It is also the
only part of the Everglades watershed
that has not been altered or destroyed
by humankind-and while billions of
dollars are anticipated to be spent on
Everglades restoration, there are still
many threats to this creek. Save Our
Creeks continues fighting to protect
Fisheating Creek from these many threats
and has also expanded its efforts to
protect other threatened waterways, such
as Telegraph Creek where massive
development of the Babcock property is
being planned.
WE
DID IT!
THANK YOU! ---WE STOPPED
THE EAGLE TRAINING CENTER IN VENUS!
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