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• Bad news: Gov. Scott has signed House Bill 1197

  Read below posts (here and here) about House Bill 1197.

  ARFF is very disappointed that Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed this harmful bill into law. ARFF will work to reinstate the protections afforded animals in the 1967 law that was repealed. Since Senator Ellyn Bogdanoff’s office has admitted [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at April 09, 2012, 1:01pm in Environment

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• Pythons eating bird eggs

  In an ongoing study to better understand the impact of pythons in the Everglades, scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service and others have been examining the contents of the digestive tracts of pythons in the area. They have shown that Burmese pythons consume at least 25 different [...]
  From Mike Poller's Backlash Blog at April 08, 2012, 10:59pm in Environment, Politics

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• Evapotranspiration (ET) in action

  Here's a look at evapotranspiration from the sky:
  
  Green out of the cypress
  accelerates ET
  Here's a closer look on the ground:
  
  Even closer would be to look below ground
  which during the spring is where
  the water is to be found Clarification:
  
  Evapotranspiration is [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 08, 2012, 6:21pm in Environment

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• These Easter Tortoises aren't real

  But that doesn't mean they don't exist!
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 08, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Easter Tortoise to visit Florida?

  I’m not saying the Easter Bunny doesn’t exist …
  
  But maybe The Tortoise should deliver the eggs instead.
  
  Who will win the race?
  By April, the Tortoise usually has a big lead
  That’s because in south Florida the annual trek around (and around) the water cycle is [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 07, 2012, 8:52pm in Environment

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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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• 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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