The Florida Department of Environmental
Protection, the City of Pensacola and Escambia County have
partnered together to offer an Environmental Geocache Tour
featuring 13 local environmental sites. Geocaching is an
exciting treasure hunting activity and is a great way for
individuals and families to spend time together outdoors
exploring local parks, barrier islands, habitat restoration
areas, and wetland-enhanced stormwater facilities. The
tour offers a great opportunity to learn about the unique
environmental features of Pensacola and Escambia County and the
work that is being done to improve the quality of the
environment in which we live. Tour participants who visit
at least 8 of the 13 locations and use the colored pens at each
location to check off the tour visit prize form can pick up a
custom coin celebrating the City of Pensacola's 450th birthday.
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The
Ellington, Mott and Cofield
Family collects tour prize
commemorative coin |
Tour Highlights
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The
Big Escambia
Creek
Restoration
Project
returning the
Big Escambia
Creek to its
original flow.
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Project
GreenShores,
the
award winning
project to
restore oyster,
saltmarsh and
seagrass habitat
to Pensacola
Bay.
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The recently
unveiled,
Admiral
Mason Park,
with
its beautiful
pond, fountains
and walkways
that not only
adds to the
beautiful sites
of Pensacola but
also serves as a
stormwater
treatment system
for the
surrounding 31
acres.
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Three of
Florida's Award
Winning State
Parks
which highlight
the beautiful
and unique
habitats in our
area.
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Cutting edge
stormwater
retrofit
projects, such
as the
Glynn Key
Stormwater Park
at Southgate
Plaza
which turned a
traditional
stormwater pond
into a county
wetland park in
the middle of a
commercial
development and
the 17th
Street
Stormwater
Project
which combines
state of the art
technology
designed to
remove solids
and debris from
stormwater using
an underground
vault with a
"polishing
wetland" to
remove nutrients
from the
stormwater prior
to being
discharged into
Bayou Texar.
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Pensacola Beach,
a
barrier island
that offers
Florida's
whitest sand
beaches and sea
oat covered
dunes.
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For more
information, contact
Brandy Smith
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