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The South Florida Watershed Journal

• Wild Hog BBQ

  The 61st Annual
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• Mosaic burn

  The footprint of a wildland fire
  is hard to predict
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• January's "fire and water" sweet spot

  Green is good:
  
  On the calendar graph below "green-colored" coding means the natural fire breaks (i.e. cypress domes, strands and marshes) are still flooded.
  
  The bigger and hotter the data point,
  the higher the drought severity threat.
  But that's not too much of a surprise, either.
  
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• Scorched marl

  As seen just adjacent to
  an unscorched cypress dome
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• "Where'd the water table go?"

  It doesn't sound like much ...
  
  But the water table has now dropped 10 inches from its October peak.
  
  A 10-inch drop in the water table may not sound like much,
  but in the case of the swamp, it's caused a couple
  habitat types (pines and marl' [...]
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• Safe haven

  The prescribed fire
  was stopped dead
  in its tracks here
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• Natural fire stomper is losing strength

  Just next to the prairie of ash,
  
  Is this dome, not full, but still patchy wet.
  
  Without rain soon
  this fire break will go dry
  in a few short weeks It and others like it limit where and how far the fire can roam ...
  
  At least [...]
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• Swamp ash

  Almost looks like snow
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• Smoke and clouds

  Wildfires can actually
  stifle cloud formation,
  So I've been told
  ' [...]
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• Panoramic view of prescribed burn

  Wildland fire is essential
  for maintaining a healthy swamp
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