We explored Tiger Creek Preserve with its manager. Tiger Creek Preserve is a place of mystery and contrasts. It sits on the eastern edge of the Lake Wales Ridge, one of Florida’s ancient islands. Separated from the mainland long ago by a shallow sea, the Ridge is peninsular Florida’s oldest and highest landmass. Fast forward to the present day, this ancient separation is the reason why the preserve has one of the highest concentrations of threatened and endangered plants and animals in the country. Some exist nowhere else on Earth.
Preserve Manager, Cheryl Millett, guided the FNPS group through scrubby flatwoods, sandhill, and across the namesake blackwater stream and its forested floodplain.
