The Cape Coral Focus Area encompasses the North Matlacha Pass Frontal, South Matlacha Pass Frontal, and Yellow Fever Creek-Four Mile Cove sub-watersheds in Lee County.
Our Strategic Focus
Conservation in Cape Coral aims to enhance access to green spaces and recreational areas, benefiting local communities that currently face limited tree canopy and park availability. According to the Trust for Public Land Park Serve model, 84% of residents in the City of Cape Coral do not live within one mile of a park, as compared to just nineteen percent in the City of Sarasota. Within Cape Coral, the Yellow-Fever Creek Four Mile Cove sub-watershed contains the greatest number of census blocks that are considered underserved for park access: 256 census blocks.
Additionally, the watersheds of this focus area drain into Charlotte Harbor, a designated National Estuary that supports mangroves, seagrass beds, essential nursery habitats for fish and shellfish, and designated Critical Habitat for smalltooth sawfish (FE) and Florida manatee (FT).
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