WILDLIFE CORRIDOR - TWIN EAGLES AND IMMOKALEE ROAD SOUTH

The regional wildlife corridor represents a part of an overall Bonita Bay Group plan to establish a regional wildlife corridor running from the CREW lands, along the western boundary of Twin Eagles, across Immokalee Road, through the Immokalee Road South property. These components were developed and designed in conjunction with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Wildlife Federation, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary and Collier County Audubon Society. The adjacent Twin Eagles land plan provided an Audubon International Gold Signature Golf Course, lakes with abundant littoral shelfs, and single-family residential adjacent to the wildlife corridor. This regional corridor not only provides benefits for wildlife movement in the region but also provides hydrologic benefits in the height of the wet season. • Increased the size of the CREW preserve • Improved the southward conveyance of water flows originating north of the project • Created wading bird foraging marshes and intermittent drawdown pool habitats adjacent to CREW. The marsh habitats created from farm fields were graded to include different elevations to provide a variety of inundated areas and timing of foraging opportunities to the benefit of wood stork and other wading birds. • Re-forested upland and wet pasture adjacent to on-site corridor which increased corridor width for wildlife • Environmental educational signage will be provided along key points of the preserve for educating the residents and golfers. • Provided wildlife underpass connecting the Bonita Bay East Golf Club and Twin Eagles wildlife corridor with the Immokalee Road South greenbelt/ wildlife corridor • Provided Outstanding Florida Water (OFW) level of water quality treatment from the project’s water management system.

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