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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 #1320 |
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When I think of Florida
I try to picture it
without a single human
No buildings
or bridges
or boats
No telephone poles
or highways
or cars
When I think of Florida
I can't imagine
what it must have looked like
before we uprighters
considered it worthy of conquest
I can't wrap my head around how innocent
how beautiful
and wild it must have been
That is, until the sun rises or sets
And then I somehow know
Mark Renz photo art & words
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American idol has nothing on this bird. Brown Thrashers are known to have as many as 3000 unique songs in their vocal repertoire. Immature brown thrasher above -- Mark Renz photo
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SW FL Oyster Working Group
The next meeting will all be held at the SW FL Regional Planning Council office in Fort Myers with webex available to all who would like to participate remotely.
June 19th (8:00 - 12:00) - Review of Draft Restoration Plan
1. The CHNEP Oyster Restoration Plan will be a living science-based document which will be adapted as needed to incorporate new science and improved data.
2. The Restoration Plan will include maps of currentpriority restoration areas which will incorporate habitat suitability, areas of avoidance (e.g. channels, seagrass), and management/permitting considerations, these maps can be updated in the future to incorporate new data.
3. One of the reasons for the Restoration Plan is to provide a tool to help in obtaining funding and to help in the permitting process, by demonstrating how individual projects will contribute to a regional goal using regionally accepted methods etc.
4. The Restoration Plan will not be rigid, but will provide a suite of restoration methods and monitoring methodologies that are suitable for meeting the regional restoration goals, with the ability to add new methods as they are developed.
5. The CHNEP Oyster Restoration Goal will be based on consideration of 1) restorable acres of historical oyster reefs as documented by 1950s aerial mapping, and 2) acres of suitable restoration areas resulting from the model output. (Note: success of restoration will be discussed at the May 9th meeting)
6. The Suitable Restoration Site model will provide a broad-brush map of the most appropriate oyster restoration sites, a site-specific suitability assessment should be conducted to ensure any individual site is likely to result in successful restoration (e.g. consideration of spat, disease, predation, seagrass presence, endangered species presence).
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Someone can't count. The name "millipede" is a compound word formed from the Latin roots mille ("thousand") and pes ("foot"). Despite my name, no known millipede has 1,000 legs, although the rare species Illacme plenipes has up to 750. Common species have between 36 and 400 legs. And in spite of all my legs, I can't get there any faster than you two-leggers. Source: Wikipedia Mark Renz photo art
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Rare caffinated eclipse Best viewed in your kitchen at daybreak Mark Renz photo art
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Vibrating bill
Black-crowned night herons will sometimes attract prey by rapidly opening and closing their beak in the water to create a disturbance that attracts its prey. This technique is known as bill vibrating. The diet of the Black-crowned Night Heron depends on what is available, and may include algae, fishes, leeches, earthworms, insects, crayfish, mussels, squid, amphibians, small rodents, plant materials, garbage and organic refuse at landfills. They have been seen taking baby ducklings and other baby water birds. The night heron prefers shallow water when fishing and catches its prey within its bill instead of stabbing it. Source: Wikipedia.
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