Key Peninsula Metropolitan Park District (Key Pen Parks) used this grant to buy 34 acres surrounding Taylor Bay, protecting the largest pocket estuary on the Key Peninsula. The bay is integral to Chinook, chum, coho and cutthroat trout recovery. The land includes forested riparian and uplands protecting Taylor Bay Creek and estuarine conditions at the creek mouth. Acquisition of Taylor Bay property prevented habitat degradation from development and maintains the pristine habitat. This purchase was part of a larger project that protected two other parcels in the area that include gravelly beaches, wetlands, pocket estuaries, mudflats, lagoon, salt marshes, creeks, forests, stream banks and patches of open meadow. Key Pen Parks contributed $92,250 in donations of cash, labor and materials.