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• Is this canal necessary?

  Short answer: No.
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 02, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• It’s not too late to help baby rabbits, ducks and chickens

  ARFF’s concerns about a bill to repeal Florida’s long-standing ban on the sale of baby animals as pets, as well as the ban on artificial coloring of animals, made the front page of today’s New York Times. (Read below posts for more information about this bill.)

  Governor Scott has not [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at April 02, 2012, 9:31am in Environment

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• Paper hydrologists to the rescue!

  Why is it that canals were so easy to build ...
  
  But filling them in is so hard?
  
  That was easy!
  
  The mentality was "dig first and ask questions later."
  
  Decades later the mantra seems hopelessly reversed.
  
  
  We're better at shuffling paper than moving' [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 01, 2012, 7:35pm in Environment

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• Ant Buffet

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  For a moment the corpse moves and thinking it’s still alive, I shift backward from my seat on the ground. The insect that is being consumed by an army of ants has long since expired, but the communal efforts of the tiny insects to break the hopper into pieces have caused it to [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at April 01, 2012, 2:00am in Environment

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• Happy April Fools Day!

  Don't worry:
  As you can see in the photo above,
  the cypress are doing fine.
  ' [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 01, 2012, 2:00am in Environment

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• No laughing matter

  Another perplexing rumor:
  
  Is luckless forest on onerous last straw?
  
  An inauspicious start? - Usually verdant spring cypress
  inexplicably brown to autumnal hue!
  I was shocked to learn (and see for myself) that all the recently greened out cypress needles had browned and fallen to the [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at March 31, 2012, 8:53pm in Environment

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• Swamp pencils?

  April is the last "full month"
  of the dry season
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  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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