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Florida Worries as Growth Threatens Its Freshwater Springs
Posted by New York Times: Lizette Alvarez on June 23rd, 2012
New York Times: Of Florida’s 700 artesian springs, Silver Springs shimmered the brightest. Its fresh water was so translucent that the white sand and tiny shells at the bottom glistened, giving the river and springs a beautiful blue tint from above. Glass-bottomed boats grew famous here as did underwater photography. Even Tarzan was lured to the springs; six of the movies in the 1930s and ’40s were filmed here. Tourists arrived in droves to these springs, just outside Ocala. The riverscape — with anhingas drying...
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Comments Off on Florida Worries as Growth Threatens Its Freshwater SpringsDisbelief Still as Florida Reacts to Burning of 3,500-Year-Old Tree
Posted by New York Times: Lizette Alvarez on January 21st, 2012
New York Times: Back, way back, before King Tut was born and Alexander the Great roamed his empire, the Senator sprouted in a swamp here in central Florida, one of thousands of its kind. So on Monday, when word got out that the huge, 3,500-year-old bald cypress had burned and collapsed, people from the area who thought that nothing — not hurricanes, not loggers, not disease — could fell the Senator, sank into disbelief. In a state known for its sprawl and its zeal for pouring concrete, the Senator stood as a testament...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Disbelief Still as Florida Reacts to Burning of 3,500-Year-Old TreeFlorida Looks for Curbs on Some Snake Species
Posted by New York Times: Lizette Alvarez on December 25th, 2011
New York Times: To live in South Florida is to make peace with flying cockroach behemoths, brigades of lizards that dart across walls (bedroom and otherwise) and frogs the size of cannonballs that loiter on driveways. But even in a state as hospitable as this one to scaly, slithering creatures, enough is enough. Florida has the highest number of nonnative amphibians and reptile species, according to a recent University of Florida study, and some of them are obliterating native Floridian creatures. Florida’s Congressional...