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• Whale Sharks and Fishermen

  Nice find on the Fiji Shark Diving blog...fishermen and whale sharks learn to coexist in a region that usually is not safe for these large and gentle animals.  
  Shawn Heinrich captured the story in the video below - it speaks to the pros and cons of tourist shark [...]
  From OceanicDreams at April 03, 2012, 10:02am in Environment, Photography and Video

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• Obituary for “The Senator”

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  3500 years before present to January 16th, 2012 The beloved Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens), affectionately nicknamed “the Senator”, was born 3500 years ago in what is present day Longwood, Florida. The 125 foot tall, seventeen and a half foot diameter trunked, deciduous hardwood was considered the 5th oldest tree in the world, the oldest Pond Cypress [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at April 03, 2012, 2:00am in Environment

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• Okefenokee is back (but for how long?)

  Okefenokee swamp had been mired in a multi-year drought ...
  
  And then like that it's done.
  
  How low was 2011?
  So low that its full annual flow volume
  doesn't even show up on the bar chart (11,600 acre feet),
  however, the recent spring rise jumps out on' [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 02, 2012, 7:56pm in Environment

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• Is this canal necessary?

  Short answer: No.
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  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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