Friends of Highlands Hammock

The Friends of Highlands Hammock State Park is a non-profit corporation which functions as a citizen support organization (CSO) regulated by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Our purpose is to generate and employ additional resources and support for and in the best interests of Highlands Hammock State Park. We accomplish this through special events, outreach programs, educational activities and communications, special exhibits, interpretive programs, fund raising activities and events, and guided tours and other activities and events designed to meet the additional areas of park needs. The members are volunteers who have an interest in preserving our natural resources and wildlife as well as improving Highlands Hammock State Park.

Over the many years Peter has been the Park Manager at Highlands Hammock State Park, we have all gotten to know him. I wonder though how many of us really know the long history of service he has with the state park system? I have teased Peter a few times about how he has been in the Florida Park Service longer than I’ve been alive (by about 2 years) but his career story is no laughing matter. He has done some amazing, exciting and downright frightening things while employed in the state park system. I hope that this brief article will provide a glimpse into just what an amazing career this man has had.

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