Xref: utzoo rec.birds:2152 rec.travel:12548 rec.scuba:3113 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!encore!jpenovic From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich) Newsgroups: rec.birds,rec.travel,rec.scuba Subject: Re: Trip to Everglades and Florida Keys: Part 1 Message-ID: <126613@midas.encore.com> Date: 29 May 90 13:18:10 GMT References: Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 46 From article , by pratt@paul.rutgers.edu (Lorien Y. Pratt): > > Trip report to the Everglades and Florida Keys > ==or-- how to see 165 species in 8 days. > > We are heading into the Everglades for the night, but we're not going > to do any bird watching today, so we check out what could be a tourist > trap -- the Miami Monkey Jungle. This is a neat place actually. The Next time try Metro Zoo. Besides all the animals at this natural barrier zoo, they also have a large aviary that humans walk through. > [a lot of interesting stuff about various birds, gumbo > limbos, hammocks, and mosquitoes deleted.] South Florida is suffering through a severe drought (though it has been raining for the past week, it hasn't helped much). The animals in the Everglades are having a tough time. The birds are suffering to the extent that their breeding schedules have gotten out of sync. They have also abandoned many of the newborn birds because of lack of water. I read in the newspaper that the wood stork is in particular trouble. The Everglades (and Everglade National Park at the southern end) suffer because the water that runs through the "sea of grass" is controlled by Water Management. When there's too much water in the residential and farming areas, they drain it into the Everglades. I recently read an article that interviewed one of the higher-ups at the Everglades National Park, and he said that there's nothing they can do to control the water flow through the park and that they are at the mercy of the water management people. Sorry for going on so long. I love the Everglades and it's very disturbing to see it burning during draughts, flooded when other areas have too much water, and to see developers always looking for ways to get their greedy hooks into it. ******************************************************************** TTFN, ___ * jpenovich@gould.UUCP / / / /\ / * {uunet,sun,pur-ee}!gould!jpenovich / /___/ / \ / * {allegra,ucf-cs}!uflorida!gould!jpenovich /___/ / / / / * jpenovich@encore.com * Encore Computer Corp., Ft. Lauderdale, FL NOTE: Disregard header info. Email to above paths only. *********************************************************************