Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. SunGuide Center, 10041 Daniels Parkway, Fort Myers, Florida A cumulative effects evaluation study looks at changes in an area through time and how these changes affect resources in that area. This study examines how past, present and reasonably foreseeable future changes affect eight protected species found within southwest Florida. The eight species under study include: Florida panther, Florida black bear, Florida sandhill crane, wood stork, red-cockaded woodpecker, gopher tortoise, eastern indigo snake, and mangrove fox squirrel. The purpose of this meeting is to review information associated with past to present actions that may have affected the eight study species and to discuss changes in the project study area that may have resulted from these actions. The meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss parameters that will be used in environmental models and species specific habitat models. These models, in association with established development and agricultural models, will be used to assess cumulative effects on the eight study species.