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• Ditch to Deep Lake

  This ditch will be worth
  a revisit during high water [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 07, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Slightly Rattled – The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

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  Not everyone has the good fortune of seeing an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) in the wild and most are probably content to keep it that way. There’s also a vast difference between spotting one from a vehicle and having one slither across a path in front of you. The Big Cypress National Preserve [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at April 07, 2012, 2:00am in Environment

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• Choo choo at tunnel's end

  What's that saying about the light at the end of the tunnel?
  
  Something about a train coming the other way.
  
  
  
  Long ago there was a railroad track nearby.
  
  Sometimes in the solitude you can still hear its whistle blow.
  
  
  People traveled on it [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 06, 2012, 8:44pm in Environment

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• Big Cypress Nat'l Lakeshore?

  Right next to the refugia pool (bottom)
  was a dry shore of cypress (top).
  
  Can you see the gator trail?
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 06, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Battle of the Cold Front and Spring ET

  Word is on Friday we could see a front.
  
  The result could be some coveted spring rain.
  
  Foreground: In the foreground is actual weekly rainfall (blue bars), average weekly rainfall (dotted black line) and median weekly rainfall (solid black line).  The dotted line nicely shows that on [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 05, 2012, 7:51pm in Environment

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• Dry season refugia pools ...

  are the last to go dry
  and the first to fill up when it rains
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 05, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Thunder Pumpers - The American Bittern

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  Stick your head in an aquarium and say “glunk-ga-glunk” repeatedly. This was the best description I could offer to a friend who was trying to help me identify the other worldly noise I was hearing coming from just outside my home in Londonderry, VT back in 2002. I had never heard such a sound [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at April 05, 2012, 2:00am in Environment

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• Happy to stand in fear at water's edge?

  I don't know what changed ...
  
  But this time last year I walked fearlessly straight into the pool below.
  
  April 2012
  Maybe I'm just getting softer in my old age, as in the saying:
  
  "Another year older, another year slower."
  
  Same view the year [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 04, 2012, 7:52pm in Environment

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• Deep water haunts

  Water's still out there ...
  But it's getting harder to find
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 04, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• March of the alien invaders!

  How unusually warm was March?
  
  "It's almost like science fiction" was quoted in the national news. (read article)
  
  March 2012 Temperature Comparison
  Not that I or anyone saw any extraterrestrials.
  
  But it did inspire me to dig manically into the March temperature data to see [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 03, 2012, 7:54pm in Environment

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