Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area in central Florida protects and reconnects the headwaters that feed the Everglades across a landscape of natural habitat and working ranchlands. Established in 2012 as the 556th unit of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, it began with a 10-acre donation but was planned on a much larger scale. Its pine flatwoods, xeric oak scrub, freshwater marsh, and wet prairie support species such as the Florida panther, Florida black bear, gopher tortoise, Florida grasshopper sparrow, sand skink, Eastern indigo snake, and endangered Florida jujube. Land purchases, donations, and conservation easements have expanded the refuge as part of broader Everglades restoration.