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Posts Tagged ‘trails’

FGCU Students Mapping Trails for SCCF

By Barbara Linstrom | October 8, 2025 | 0

SCCF is getting assistance on mapping the William and Ruth Brooks Trails from an Environmental Geographic Information System (GIS) class at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). Through the project, students…

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William and Ruth Brooks Nature Trail Loops to Reopen in 2025

By Barbara Linstrom | June 4, 2025

With one loop of the recently renamed William and Ruth Brooks Nature Trails in the Erick Lindblad Preserve currently open, SCCF’s habitat management team is working to reopen two more…

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William and Ruth Brooks Nature Trail Now Open

By Barbara Linstrom | March 20, 2025

Thanks to a generous donation from William and Ruth Brooks, a half-mile loop trail is now open to the public behind SCCF headquarters. Funding provided by the Brooks allowed contractors…

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SCCF Puschel Preserve Now Open to Public

By Barbara Linstrom | March 20, 2025

It’s been about four years since Roberta and Philip Puschel made the lead gift in SCCF’s campaign to acquire 12-plus acres of wildlife habitat running from Periwinkle Way to the…

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Environmental Nonprofits Launch Wild Mile Initiative

By Barbara Linstrom | January 28, 2025

Four Sanibel non-profit organizations have partnered to launch a new outreach campaign with a goal to broaden public awareness and appreciation of natural resources and wildlife on the island. Called…

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Restoration Underway at Lindblad Preserve

By Barbara Linstrom | January 10, 2024

SCCF hiking trails are an important part of giving the public opportunities to interact with the nature of Sanibel. All public SCCF hiking trails are currently open, except for those…

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Periwinkle Preserve Trail to Open Soon

By Barbara Linstrom | April 4, 2023

Extensive clean up nearly completed

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Shipley Trail Re-Opens

By Barbara Linstrom | February 21, 2023

Trail open after months of post-Ian cleanup

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