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The South Florida Watershed Journal

• Everyone's happy ... almost

  Deer are happy:
  
  Recent burns give them fresh plant to feed on.
  
  Can you see the deer?
  Mosquitoes are happy:
  
  Recently formed shallow pools form perfect breeding ground for their larvae. Even better, gambuzia (i.e., pup-sized mosquito larvae eating fish) were completed depleted from [...]
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• Soggy and scorched

  Next step for wet season rains is to fill up the swamp [...]
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• Rains finally douse flames

  Between waters still being so low ...
  
  And big swathes of the swamp being burnt brown:
  
  
  It's easy to momentarily forget it's the end of June.
  
  Summer rains have their work cut out! [...]
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• Crispy crown

  If these weren't evergreens,
  I'd assume it was fall. [...]
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• Fire is this tree's best friend

  What are the signs of a healthy slash pine forest?
  
  One is seeing trees of all different sizes.
  
  Pine and prairie mosaic
  February 2011Another is that they are periodically burned.
  
  Pine island
  June 2011Sometimes that means setting prescribed fires.
  
  Other [...]
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• No place like home

  Little house at low tide
  (with a big storm brewing inland) [...]
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• Gators drop down rung of food chain

  It's not often you see a gator this big ...
  
  Or come to think of it â€“ any size at all â€“ on Naples Beach.
  
  I was a scavenger of this sand sculpture ... Let alone with a fish in his mouth!
  
  Gators of course are freshwater creatures.
  
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• Baby estuaries take shape

  Beach seeps are a common sight during low tide:
  Seepage from the angled beach face carries away sand particles,
  leaving a mini estuary channel behind.
  
  It's fun watching geomorphology at such a small and time lapsed scale. [...]
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• Saltwater treason!

  What can one state do that three can’t do better?
  
  Answer: In the spirit of the process of elimination we can rule out manage their shared waters.
  
  Can you see the three wading birds?
  
  Florida is a peaceful state ...
  Florida, Georgia and Alabama [...]
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• Wet season bromeliads

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