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Flamingo Lodge and Restaurant Florida Bay Viewshed Maintenance
Everglades NP » Flamingo Lodge and Restaurant Florida Bay Viewshed Maintenance
The National Park Service (NPS) has completed and approved a final Wetland Statement of Findings (WSOF) for viewshed maintenance along a section of shoreline of Florida Bay in Everglades National Park. The project will improve and maintain the visitor views between Florida Bay and both the Guy Bradley Trail and the recently constructed Flamingo lodge and Restaurant. Enhancing the viewshed from these structures will provide visitors an opportunity to view Florida Bay from the land.
Improving and routinely maintaining the viewshed of this section of Florida Bay involves a combination of window trimming and undercutting approximately 1 acre of mangroves and trimming approximately 1.25 acres of succulent salt marsh vegetation. The final WSOF describes the proposed actions; provides the methods and results of the wetland delineation, classification, and functional assessment; and summarizes alternatives considered, impacts from implementing the proposed actions, and wetland mitigation and compensation measures.
The views of Florida Bay from this area were routinely maintained by the NPS when the previous Flamingo lodge was in operation from 1958 until 2005. The lodge was then closed due to substantial damage caused by hurricanes and demolished in 2009. The new restaurant and lodge were completed and opened in 2024.
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Improving and routinely maintaining the viewshed of this section of Florida Bay involves a combination of window trimming and undercutting approximately 1 acre of mangroves and trimming approximately 1.25 acres of succulent salt marsh vegetation. The final WSOF describes the proposed actions; provides the methods and results of the wetland delineation, classification, and functional assessment; and summarizes alternatives considered, impacts from implementing the proposed actions, and wetland mitigation and compensation measures.
The views of Florida Bay from this area were routinely maintained by the NPS when the previous Flamingo lodge was in operation from 1958 until 2005. The lodge was then closed due to substantial damage caused by hurricanes and demolished in 2009. The new restaurant and lodge were completed and opened in 2024.
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Daniel Noon305-242-7717