Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge lies in an area that is one of the great grassland and savanna landscapes of eastern North America. Still largely rural, this Greater Everglades area is a mosaic of seasonally wet grasslands, longleaf pine savannas, and cattle ranches that sustains one of the most important assemblages of imperiled vertebrate wildlife in the southeast U.S. and a large portion of the unprotected natural habitat remaining in peninsular Florida.
Map of Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Florida. Published by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS).
Everglades Headwaters NWR
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/everglades_headwaters/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobe_Sound_National_Wildlife_Refuge
Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge lies in an area that is one of the great grassland and savanna landscapes of eastern North America. Still largely rural, this Greater Everglades area is a mosaic of seasonally wet grasslands, longleaf pine savannas, and cattle ranches that sustains one of the most important assemblages of imperiled vertebrate wildlife in the southeast U.S. and a large portion of the unprotected natural habitat remaining in peninsular Florida.
Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge
and Conservation Area
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Polk, Osceola, Okeechobee,
and Highlands Counties, Florida
January 2012
Establishing the Everglades Headwaters
National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area
Polk, Osceola, Okeechobee, and Highlands Counties, Florida
Refuge Contact Information
For more information about the refuge and
conservation area, including land acquisition
and public use opportunities,
please contact:
Charlie Pelizza, Refuge Manager
4055 Wildlife Way
Vero Beach, FL 32963
772.581.5557 x1 (office)
772.581.5510 (fax)
email: evergladesheadwaters@fws.gov
www.fws.gov/southeast/evergladesheadwaters
Cattlemen move a herd across their Polk County ranch along the shores of Lake Kissimmee.
Photo credit: Carlton Ward Jr / CarltonWard.com
