Charlotte Harbor
HABITAT PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION
Category:
Submerged, Intertidal, Wetland, and Upland
Cost: unknown
Description: Various entities in Florida have previously prioritized habitat
types and locations of lands they most want to preserve and restore. Land acquisition
programs in the Charlotte Harbor watershed have been already been actively buying
these lands, and there exists many priority actions in the CCMP that pertain to
this goal.
The management conference of the Charlotte Harbor NEP agreed upon the following
goal for the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan as a method of preserving
various habitat types:
Meet the stated objectives for the target extent, location,
and quality of the following habitats in the Charlotte Harbor NEP study area:
a) native submerged aquatic vegetation should be maintained and restored at a
total extent and quality no less than caused by natural variation; b) maintain
the existing extent and location within range of natural variability of intertidal
unvegetated habitats (especially mud flats and salt flats) and improve the habitat
quality; c) manage natural mangrove habitats to their historic extent (1980) to
enhance and improve their ecological functions and, where feasible, restore mangrove
habitats in urban areas; d) restore and maintain saltwater marsh habitats where
feasible (e.g. public lands or undeveloped areas) and prevent loss or conversion
of existing salt marsh habitats; e) restore, maintain, and manage freshwater wetland
systems in current extents and to a quality capable of maintaining all natural
functions within the range or natural variability; f) restore, manage, and improve
the habitat quality of oyster bars in the Charlotte Harbor NEP area based on the
existing historic data; and g) protect, enhance, restore native upland communities
vital to the ecological function of the Charlotte Harbor NEP study area.
Outcome: This project has not yet been completed.
Contact: Catherine Corbett, Environmental Projects Manager, Charlotte Harbor
National Estuary Program, 4980 Bayline Drive, 4th Floor, North Fort Myers, FL
33917 tel. (941) 995-1777 fax (941) 656-7724 or web: www.chnep.org
Citation: Committing to Our Future, Charlotte Harbor National Estuary
Program. 2000. Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program, North Fort Myers, Florida.
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