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Our Promise to Mother Nature

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Cyrilla Racemiflora or Red Titi

Hammock Bay is a unique area, in a part of the world that is in itself set apart. The developers, Jay and Hayley Odom recognize the responsibility that is bestowed upon them and are committed to protect and sympathetically manage the ecosystem of Hammock Bay.

According to Precious Heritage, a nature conservancy survey of biodiversity in the U.S., Northwest Florida is one of the six most important places for diverse and rare species in the country. From an environmental standpoint, The Florida Panhandle is like no other part of the state; the assemblage of plants and animals here occurs nowhere else on earth. As Hammock Bay is the premier community on the North Shore of Choctawhatchee Bay, the responsibility to protect and manage this precious resource falls naturally to us.

Hammock Bay therefore commits:

  • To leave at least 1000 acres of the total 3000-acre site as preserved and managed wetland and wilderness.
  • To encourage natural biodiversity amongst the flora and fauna of the area.
  • To educate our residents, employees and the local community to both enjoy and protect our surroundings.
  • To be energy efficient in all our endeavors.
  • To avoid waste and pollution wherever possible.
  • To recycle waste wherever it is environmentally efficient to do so.
  • To enhance our surroundings for the benefit of the community and the wildlife that occupies it.
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Hammock Bay Deer

The area occupied by Hammock Bay was, in the past, planted out as a pine plantation for the paper industry. The pines were only planted where they could be economically harvested. This meant that indigenous streams, creeks, and wetlands were left in a pristine state. Hammock Bay commits to only fell the plantation pines and to allow the indigenous areas to remain as they were. We will only manage these areas to ensure that the natural balance is maintained.

Hammock Bay will adhere to the principal always treading lightly in all our endeavors.