The Boy Scout Preserve is an area of protected land in

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, Florida.

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The preserve is adjacent to the Robert K. Rees Memorial Park and the Robert Crown Wilderness Area west of

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. It was acquired in 2010 and includes "historically significant fire rings from its days as a former Boy Scouts of America camping ground", according to the Pasco County website. The preserve also maintains coastal hammock, salt marsh and

mangrove swamp Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangroves cannot withstand fre ...

habitats for species including roseate spoonbill, white ibis and

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