Awe, what a great series of videos!!!!! I've lived in homestead for 48 years and have been to Everglades national park many times, but had no idea the biodiversity and ecology of this vast wilderness...thanks for the tutorial!!!!
Florida is a good place for research in ecology and evolution. Do not mess there. Introduce Jaguar to complete the food chain. Predators will eat some of the invasives.
I live in South florida. I used to live in Weston, I have always been obsessed with the everglades. I miss living there because whenever it rained during the summer we got the worst of it. I loved the thunderstorms. I want you to become a FWC officer, I am kind of stuff. I love to do this type of work. How does someone go about doing that we're getting into it at least as a volunteer? Thank you
Ah, Spanish moss, the epiphytic plant that is not a moss and does not come from Spain. Tillandsia usneoides is a bromeliad native to the Americas. Of course, it is related to another Bromeliad, the pineapple, which is neither a pine nor an apple.
They are loosing the battle with the snakes, be they Burmese pythons, Reticulated pythons, Boa constrictor's., whatever. I used to catch and kill anywhere from 20 to 100 a night. But, due to bureaucratic non-sense they won't allow me to hunt them anymore. Us snake hunters were getting ahead of the snakes, now with their science experiment the snakes are getting ahead of the scientist's. They actually want them to multiply so they can keep their funding. Follow the money.
I worked at Katmai NP Alaska with Mason in 2009. One year later he and two other Rangers died in a plane crash coming back from working on a coastal ranger station demolition. He was an enthusiastic ranger and friend and was a great loss to the NPS and his family.
Found one of these crossing my street while I was recording a song about the mythology of the serpent! so my wife and i used it in the music video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bW9flfzaRJY.html it's all in Spanish using traditional Cuban instruments, but hope you enjoy!
To an entirely eradicate an invasive species would be almost impossible, but surely ignoring it would make the situation vastly worse. The entire place would be overrun without being at the very minimum managed, as someone who lives around the everglades and big cypress region i certainly see the effects of their actions in a beneficial way. Although not perfect, it is at the very minimum necessary to do so as to maintain a functioning ecosystem. Until the day there is a more efficient way to eradicate an entire species over such a vast region we must at the very minimum do this to control the spread of them.
