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Big Cypress National Preserve will close to all recreational off-road
vehicle use for a sixty-day period beginning Monday, June 20. The Recreational
Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan calls for a sixty-day seasonal closure
to allow a period free from resource pressures related to ORV use. The closure
will be effective through Thursday, August 18, with trails re-opening on
Friday, August 19. This closure does not apply to landowners that hold special
use permits to access their private properties
The first National Preserve in the National Park System, Big Cypress has
a mixture of pines, hardwoods, prairies, mangrove forests, cypress strands
and domes. White-tailed deer, bear and Florida panther can be found here
along with the more tropical liguus tree snail, royal palm and cigar orchid.
This meeting place of temperate and tropical species is a hotbed of biological
diversity. Hydrologically, the Preserve serves as a supply of fresh, clean
water for the vital estuaries of the ten thousand islands area near Everglades
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