Habitat/Wildlife Archives - Big Waters Land Trust

The Elling Eide Center

An irreplaceable slice of Sarasota’s historic coastal natural areas

Warm Mineral Springs Creek is the only hot spring in Florida, and a critical refuge for manatees during cold winter months.

Triangle Ranch is essential to the protection of the Myakka River, its water quality and biodiversity, and our region’s flood protection.

Walton Ranch is a key connection in the assemblage of over 130,000 acres of conserved land known as the Myakka Island.

This 25-acre property in Manatee County is a significant natural area along a small creek that feeds the Tatum Sawgrass Marsh.

Connecting Old Miakka Preserve and Tatum Sawgrass Marsh, this land was vital to supporting the region’s biodiversity and water resources.

This small, beachfront property provides much-needed nesting areas for beach-nesting birds such as the snowy plover.

These lands protect the water quality and estuary of Lemon Bay – a State Aquatic Preserve.

This incredible landscape is a factory of biodiversity, on land and in water.

Serving the community as a private trauma center, this land provides opportunities for people to experience with the healing power of nature.