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sprawling 1,2130 acre system of shal- low, interconnected wetlands, teeming with wildlife, alive with wildflowers in bloom. It grew out of a need to dispose of treated wastewater from Oriando•s Iron Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plant. According to Susan Schuerger, a naturalist with the Orlando Parks Department, treated water enters the park on one side into a wet prairie of cattails and tall rushes. Controlled by a system of dikes and weirs, the water then traces a slow course through mixed marshes and hardwood swamp over the nest 40 days before leaving the park and ntering Seminole Ranch Wildlife .vlanagement Area, and eventuaily the St. Johns River floodplain. Schuerger is enthused about tier job of developing the recreation potential of the park. In what she calls "the most challeligilig thing I've.done," she directed long-range planning. She is a teacher to visitors, pointing out the myriad wildflow- ers, trees, birds, and animals that abound here. She is at the same time still a student of the park itself, obsen-ing the subtle workings of nature to fulfill her own under- standing of wetland ecology. She currently is working to promote the park as an open classroom for area schoolchildren. Tampa Bay Park, a restored wet- land in Tampa, shares common The egret pictured above in its natural environment may be safe from the wxlwcbment of developers, thanks to a nety momment to restore many of natatre's wonders Orlando Wilderness Park, on the prea)tocrs page is an ex- ample of just such a project—a 1,280. acre wetland system built on what was once an open pasture. P&R/MAY 1989/49 •r 1 N i �gx r' l sprawling 1,2130 acre system of shal- low, interconnected wetlands, teeming with wildlife, alive with wildflowers in bloom. It grew out of a need to dispose of treated wastewater from Oriando•s Iron Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plant. According to Susan Schuerger, a naturalist with the Orlando Parks Department, treated water enters the park on one side into a wet prairie of cattails and tall rushes. Controlled by a system of dikes and weirs, the water then traces a slow course through mixed marshes and hardwood swamp over the nest 40 days before leaving the park and ntering Seminole Ranch Wildlife .vlanagement Area, and eventuaily the St. Johns River floodplain. Schuerger is enthused about tier job of developing the recreation potential of the park. In what she calls "the most challeligilig thing I've.done," she directed long-range planning. She is a teacher to visitors, pointing out the myriad wildflow- ers, trees, birds, and animals that abound here. She is at the same time still a student of the park itself, obsen-ing the subtle workings of nature to fulfill her own under- standing of wetland ecology. She currently is working to promote the park as an open classroom for area schoolchildren. Tampa Bay Park, a restored wet- land in Tampa, shares common The egret pictured above in its natural environment may be safe from the wxlwcbment of developers, thanks to a nety momment to restore many of natatre's wonders Orlando Wilderness Park, on the prea)tocrs page is an ex- ample of just such a project—a 1,280. acre wetland system built on what was once an open pasture. P&R/MAY 1989/49