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• Swamp pencils?

  April is the last "full month"
  of the dry season
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 31, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Stuck - The Southern Black Racer

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  It’s Sunday night and I find myself in a predicament. The story I wish to write involves a mystery to which I never solved and I’ve invested all of my time and thought into writing about this particular subject matter. I am stuck but I have no choice but to plow forward. My [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at March 30, 2012, 10:43pm in Environment

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• Hunter S. Thompson decides he needs a copy of The Metamorphosis

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  From Mike Poller's Backlash Blog at March 30, 2012, 10:37pm in Environment, Politics

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• Hydrology block?

  These knees are so pointy they practically look like pencils.
  
  Were they fountain pens there wouldn't be enough ink left to write.
  
  
  
  That's because their reservoir of inky water has all but gone dry.
  
  Of course I don't write with water, but rather on it.
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 30, 2012, 8:17pm in Environment

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• Other sightings at Sweetwater!

  March 22, 2012
  Aha! So that's where the gator vanished too.
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  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 30, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Alligator eye view of Sweetwater

  The other day a visitor sent me into knee-deep water.
  
  He spotted an unsightly beer can through his high-powered camera lens.
  
  High powered lenses can pick out
  hard to see pieces of macro pollution ...
  
  Also known as litter.
  Not that I minded:
  
  I was [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 29, 2012, 7:51pm in Environment

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• True or false: Scenic fall hiking trail?

  Answer:
  False, that's the dried down channel of the Turner River
  in spring of 2011, about a mile south of the bridge.
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  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 29, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Unnavigable but quite walkable

  Hint:  They are not my footprints ...
  
  Nor was this photo taken this year.
  
  Spring 2011
  The bridge in the background is Tamiami Trail, looking north.
  
  This photo was taken in the dried down Turner River in spring of last year.
  
  
  I know what [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 28, 2012, 7:50pm in Environment

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• Killing wild pigs in Florida: legal vs. illegal

  Last May, Janice and Ashley Ramirez (mother and daughter) were arrested and charged with cruelty to animals and fighting/baiting animals after a video appeared online of the women encouraging two dogs to attack a wild pig whose mouth had been taped shut. The violent, gruesome five minute video was filmed [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at March 28, 2012, 5:33pm in Environment

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• Wood stork's eye view of wayside

  Top photo: Can you see the Turner River's headwater pools?
  Bottom photo: Can you see the filled in section of canal?
  
  Both photos are looking south.
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 28, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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