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The Six Mile Cypress Slough is a crowded ecosystem where every available niche is filled by animals and plants adapted to life in a wetland.

The Slough has a diverse array of plant and animal communities within its 2,500 acres. These communities occur in distinct zones related to ground elevations, types of soil, and water depths found in the Slough at different times of the year.

Click on the communities below to learn more about them:

Pine Flatwoods

Hardwood Transition

Flag Pond

Hammock

Cypress Slough

 

To learn about the Six Mile Cypress Slough communities in even greater depth, download the land management plan in PDF format (18 meg file) Click here.