"We think that for the South Florida parks, Dry Tortugas,Big Cypress, Everglades and Biscayne, it is predominately going to be a tar ball event because the oil is weathering."
VOA: standard.2010.05.26
The refuge was launched with a donation of just 10 acres of land from the US-based Nature Conservancy, but could eventually grow to more than 150, 000 acres, connecting with conservation land near Naples, 175 miles to the southwest, and on through to the BigCypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park that extends to the southern tip of the peninsula.
So big is the option plan at Cypress that if all options were exercised, employees would own a fourth of the company (called, in options parlance, the "overhang").