Bogey Creek Landing
On March 3, 2006, the North Florida Land Trust acquired Bogey Creek Landing, its second property within the Timucuan Trail State and National Parks area. The 4.2 acre parcel of uplands is bordered by estuarine salt marsh, Bogey Branch and other upland properties. Bogey Creek Landing consists almost entirely of maritime hammock, a natural community of live oak, pignut hickory and southern magnolia. Maritime hammock is extremely important to migrating songbirds along the Atlantic flyway and is increasingly threatened and fragmented across Florida by development.

With this purchase, the North Florida Land Trust expands its preservation role in northeast Florida . A non-profit organization dedicated to permanently preserving natural areas and special places, the North Florida Land Trust has protected several other significant properties throughout its 7-county region of northeastern Florida.

Estuarine salt marshes, among the most productive habitats on earth, are extremely sensitive to pollution and disruption from construction. In light of the rapid growth of metropolitan Jacksonville, the Bogey Creek Landing acquisition provides the opportunity to protect critical upland natural communities while, at the same time, support the water quality and flood protection functions they provide.

Bogey Creek Landing has deepwater access to Bogey Branch, a tidally-influenced tributary to Clapboard Creek which flows to the St. Johns River. The location of Bogey Creek Landing is especially critical in that it is within the Pumpkin Hill Creek Florida Forever project and is adjacent to parcels within The Nature Conservancy's Machaba Balu Preserve.

This protection effort was made possible with the generous cooperation of Rob Spencer and the Spencer family, the land's previous owners, and The Nature Conservancy. The North Florida Land Trust's purchase of Bogey Creek Landing opens the way to protect an equally critical adjacent 67-acre property in the near future.