Ecosystems
Weedon Island Preserve, including its associated historic points, is located along the northwest shore of Old Tampa Bay in Pinellas County. Today, the Preserve includes approximately 3,700 acres with more than half lying north of Gandy Boulevard. What was once a true island during high tides is now a low-lying peninsula surrounded by several small islands.

Most of the Preserve is dominated by aquatic and wetland ecosystems that include miles of mosquito ditches dug in the late 1950s. The upland ecosystems comprise the remaining 1,100 acres of relatively flat, dry lands. Indian mounds and relic dune ridges occur at higher elevations.

Weedon Island Preserve is owned by the State of Florida and managed through several lease agreements by the Pinellas County Department of Environmental Management's Environmental Lands Division. The Weedon Island Preserve Resource Management Plan (12M) , a plan approved by the State, guides the resource and recreational activities on the Preserve.

Various species that inhabit Weedon Island Preserve.