- Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park
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Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
Location Monroe County, Florida, USA Nearest city Key Largo, Florida Coordinates 25°10′32″N 80°22′08″W / 25.17556°N 80.36889°WCoordinates: 25°10′32″N 80°22′08″W / 25.17556°N 80.36889°W Governing body Florida Department of Environmental Protection The Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park is a Florida State Park, located on the northern tip of Key Largo in the Florida Keys, on County Road 905, one-quarter mile north of its intersection with the Overseas Highway (US 1).
The park's name honors Dagny Johnson, a local environmentalist activist, and is constructed on land bought up in 1982 after the financial demise of Port Bougainville, a project which would have included 15 hotels and over 2000 condos.[1][2] The park is an important habitat for the threatened Key Largo Woodrat and the Key Largo Cotton Mouse, which are found only in this part of Key Largo: 90% of these animals' habitat is in the Dagny Johnson Park and the adjacent Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge.[3]
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Admission and hours
There is a $2.50 per person entrance fee. Florida state parks are open between 8 a.m. and sundown every day of the year (including holidays).
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Reference
- ^ Dahlburg, John-Thor (18 December 1982). "Condos May Kill Off American Crocodiles: It's the 11th Hour for the American Crocodile and other Endangered Species that Live on Key Largo". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. pp. 19A. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z9ohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qp8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1569,1661650&dq=key-largo-woodrat&hl=en. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
- ^ Wilkinson, Jerry. "North Key Largo". Keys Historeum. Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys. http://www.keyshistory.org/nokeylargopage2.html. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
- ^ McCleery, R.A., Lopez, R.R. and Silvy, N.J. (2006). "Movements and habitat use of the Key Largo woodrat". Southeastern Naturalist 5 (4): 725–736. doi:10.1656/1528-7092(2006)5[725:MAHUOT]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3878061.
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