Babcock Ranch Florida - Embracing Nature

Babcock Ranch Preserve. A shared vision, a shared commitment.

Southwest Florida’s City of Tomorrow™ springs from an unprecedented collaboration between government leaders, private business and environmentalists that resulted in the largest preservation land purchase in Florida history to date when it was completed in July of 2006. The 91,000 acre Babcock Ranch was long considered the "missing link" in an environmental corridor stretching from Lake Okeechobee in the center of Florida all of the way to the Charlotte Harbor Estuary on Florida’s Gulf Coast. That corridor was completed with the establishment of the 73,000+ acre Babcock Ranch Preserve. Lawmakers seized the opportunity to preserve both the land and Southwest Florida’s rich ranching heritage. Ranching, farming, timbering and hunting activities on the Preserve today generate the funding necessary to continue the stewardship activities that made the property such a prime opportunity for preservation in the first place.

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