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The South Florida Watershed Journal

• Trail on fire!

  Not to worry ...
  
  It was a controlled burn.
  
  It's prescribed fire season
  in the swamp
  Wind was out of the southeast, thus keeping smoke off the road.
  
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• Mullet Slough

  At the southern end
  of Mullet Slough,
  looking east
  [...]
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• Transition lands

  Northern edge of central pinelands,
  looking north into Mullet Slough
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• Over the slash pine

  Fire cleared forest floor
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• Pond apple free dome

  Here's a dome with just a marsh in the middle,
  Or is it just a marsh surrounded by cypress?
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• Winter's long-awaited return

  South Florida is divided on January's extreme warmth:
  
  Half the people I speak to love it, describing the 80 degree afternoons as ideal whereas others complain that cooler air hasn't taken hold. All the while I've maintained the mantra that "at least it's not summer."
  
  It's been [...]
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• Pond apple panorama

  As taken from the center of a cypress dome
  (water is about a foot deep)
  [...]
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• Pond apple paradox

  Here's another paradox of the swamp:
  
  Just like you know it's really wet in the swamp when the "usually high and dry" pinelands get shallowly flooded, it isn't until the "low-lying and usually wet" pond apple go dry that the swamp enters the tightening grip of deep drought.
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• Coveted "cloud" shade

  Usually you have to find a big tree
  to secure a shady spot in sunny south Florida ...
  
  Not on this day.
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• Meteorologic "ups and downs"

  Rain in south Florida is seasonally distinct:
  
  Summers are wet and winters are dry.
  
  South Florida is a land
  of meteorologic extremes But summers get a boost when they get a Big Rain Month (i.e. > 9 inches) and dry seasons make a swoon when multiple (or consecutive) [...]
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