Prescribed burn scheduled for Hickey’s Creek Mitigation Park Thursday
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Lee County Department of Parks and Recreation will be conducting a 20-acre prescribed fire at Hickey’s Creek Mitigation Park in Alva Thursday, March 5. The park will be closed on the day of the fire and will remain closed to all public access for a few days after the burn.
Fire is a vital, natural process in many plant communities. Without fire, these communities change and the plants and animals unique to the original habitat maintained by fire are lost.
The objective of the March 5 burn is to maintain a high-quality, scrubby flatwood system and provide well managed habitats for the plants and animals that rely on this system.
For information, please visit: www.leeparks.org/facility-info/facility-details.cfm?Project_Num=0206