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The South Florida Watershed Journal

• Happy giant welk day!

  Little welks don't fall far from the tree,
  
  Or do I meant they grow like weeds?
  
  Little welk Of course a watched welk seems stuck in time,
  
  But then quick like lightning they are three times as big.
  
  
  Big welk I'm [...]
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• Panther king?

  From humble roots of a hammocky bramble,
  panther kittens aspire someday to roam unfettered and free. [...]
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• Why did the panther cross the road?

  Florida panthers roam far and wide:
  
  Males need 200 square miles and females around 80 to live.
  
  
  Southwest Florida's panther population is now 150 large, or so the estimate goes. That means that eventually they run into each other and/or motor vehicles while attempting to cross' [...]
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• Florida ice season

  Florida's year-rounders find a way to stay cool ...
  Ice, shade, and plenty of water helps. [...]
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• "Thick as pea soup" season

  Notice to Floridians:
  
  A delay in the wet season doesn’t put the summer on hold.
  
  June wet season rains were delayed,
  But summer mosquitoes were in full force on this trail.
  
  Only it's not a trail, it's the Turner River!
  In fact the summer [...]
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• Sheetflow doesn't happen overnight!

  Dry pond apple and shriveled resurrection fern
  
  Or in other words,
  dry land and dry sky! [...]
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• Can a deluge extend the drought?

  The trail on those animal tracks went cold …
  
  Or rather I mean got “soaking wet” and washed away instead.
  
  Low spots fill up quickly ...
  
  as shown on the Turner River looking downstream.
  The nearby Ochopee weather station recorded 4 inches of rain [...]
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• What river?

  Turner River looking south from bridge
  June 9, 2011 [...]
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• Animal track detective

  Low water is a great time to study animal tracks.
  
  Here's a gator:
  
  
  An otter.
  
  
  And me.
  
  All photos from Turner River
  I sunk in a little deeper than I thought.
  
  The egret was [...]
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• Wet season skyline

  Panorama of clouds featured in yesterday's post [...]
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