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  • Old growth "bottom"

    Is it me, or does the base of this trunk look like its losing peat ... I hope not.

    Glimpse inside the water cycle [...]
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  • Heartbeat of the swamp

    The lifeblood of the swamp is water

    Glimpse inside the water cycle [...]
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  • Old growth meets "new" drought

    One rain doesn't end a drought, Especially one that's seven years in the making. The twin hydrograph above compares the pattern of flooding Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary for two periods: 1960 to...

    Glimpse inside the water cycle [...]
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  • Aaaaaaaaaaahhh!

    We've been waitingfor this one

    Glimpse inside the water cycle ' [...]
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  • "High water" mirage

    We're four months into the dry season ...

    How can this south Florida lake be so high?

    The above graph shows current water stage in Lake Istokpoga relative to the twenty-year record, the ecohydrology of adjacent perimeter marsh and the modern day regulation schedule.  The light blue' [...]
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  • SFWMD Rain Chart

    The above chart shows an up-to-date overview of rainfall for all of south Florida, i.e. South Florida Water Management District. That area includes the Kissimmee, Okeechobee, Everglades, Miami East Coast, Big Cypress Swamp and Naples and Ft Myers Coast.  The top graph shows weekly rainfall over the past two [...]
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  • Still a long way to go

    Still over three months to go ...

    Before the wet season starts.

    Once again (just like 2009, 2011 and 1012)
    a deep spring drought is threatening
    the swamp
    And that's assuming summer rains arrive in May.

    Remember in 2011 when the spring drought stretched into spring?
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  • "Sprinklers, get ready"

    The spring growing
    (and drought) season is here
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  • Close but not cigar

    Could rain be heading our rain?

    The SFWMD's three-day forecast says yes.

    The tan, red and orange bands show the forecasted bands
    of highest rain intensity.  That means the Big Cypress and
    Everglades (gray area) could see only clouds. The only problem is the bulk of the weather [...]
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  • Greening of the swamp

    February is the month
    the cypress start greening out [...]
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