Just south of the bustle of Orlando’s amusement parks and resorts is a quiet refuge: one of the most biologically rich grasslands in the world, essential to preserving the water quality of the Everglades.
Within the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge, OSI helped conserve nearly 4,000 acres of biologically significant dry prairie. This critical locale plays an important role, naturally filtering drinking water and supporting rare, sensitive species and habitat.
The state, which had long sought to conserve the land, called the work of the Open Space Institute “instrumental in achieving the purchase.”
