Sad to hear, Walt. Good to hear you are doing your part though.
Reminds me of a story I heard about the Everglades just the other
day. Actually, it was on Lake Okechobee. Because of our drought,
the lake is 2 miles further inland than it usually is at this time of
year. The news story came about because the "new shoreline" of the
lake was on fire!
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Suzanne
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
"There is always music amongst the trees and in the garden, but
our hearts must be very quiet to hear it." - Minnie Aumonier
--- In Walter Knapp <>
wrote:
>
>
> That was a very active frog habitat. But unfortunately a local real
> estate agent inherited the area from his parents. He "cleaned it
up" to
> make it look "pretty". (his words, not mine) During high water on
the
> creek beside it there still will be several feet of water over the
area,
> and the small spring uphill from it still feeds through the area.
So
> it's not housebuilding territory. But the sill along the creek that
made
> it a beautiful aquatic habitat was removed so water is no longer
> retained onsite.
>
> I live just about 1/4 mile upstream from there, I've been
excavating a
> small pool in my creek bottomlands to help the displaced frogs ever
> since that happened. Hundreds of southern leopard frogs are
emerging
> from there right now, and last time I was down the water was
covered
> with gray treefrog eggs. With the drought I have to go down and
pump
> water into it at least every week. The frogs hardly allow me to
work on
> it so expansion is going slowly.
>
> In the year that the swamp was done in the federal court ruled that
the
> only thing that was a wetland was something that had a permanent
named
> stream flowing directly through it. That wiped out nearly all
wetland
> protection. In that one year across the US it's estimated that half
the
> remaining wetlands were filled or drained to prevent any new
protection.
> So this little photo essay was repeated many, many times. And
hardly a
> peep from all the environmental activists!
>
> Walt
>
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