Praying over waterways Harns Marsh

On the way to visit a elderly shut in friend, I was lead to pray the suggested prayers, decrees and Psalms 91 over Harns Marsh. Harns Marsh is located in the eastern portion of Lee County located off of Sunshine Blvd. in Lehigh Acres. The area was part of Buckingham Army Airfield, a flexible gunnery training base, used to train gunners who would defend bombers. It was constructed in 1942 at a cost of 10 million dollars. It encompassed a total of 7,000 acres and had a series of canals constructed on it to drain the swamp land. During its peak the base had 6 runways, housed over 16,000 men and women, contained approximately 700 buildings and graduated over 48,000 aerial gunners. Buckingham Army Airfield was the first school for flexible gunnery instructors. The base was closed on September 30, 1945. In the early 1980’s, LA-MSID transformed the 578-acre farmland into an active stormwater facility helping to filter water and reduce flooding to the Orange River. The water control structures have helped create a lush habitat for snail kites, limpkin and more than 140 species of animals.