Posted on 03/21/2011 9:35:06 AM PDT by decimon
All-American trash ping.
So. Sometimes, when humans leave their foul footprints, good things happen? How can this be????
Some people are apparently born without the irony gene.
These were the pure humans that lived with nature, not the evil white man that destroys nature.
Thousands of square miles of sawgrass is what the author terms ecological richness. If you really want the area to have ecological richness, drain the fetid swamp dry.
Rocket scientists avoid this line of work: where would YOU sit to have a meal or light a fire to cook with? In the water or on a small mount. Set a pot down on the low land or on a mound?
Maybe they should rephrase it: First American BBQ Grills
I think they need to dig a foot deeper.
Shell mounds re-invented.
“The layer also contains phosphorus from dissolved bones,”
If you were an animal dying in the swamp wouldn’t you climb up out of the water to find a more comfortable place to expire?
“Rocket scientists avoid this line of work: where would YOU sit to have a meal or light a fire to cook with? In the water or on a small mount. “
The same is true for the ag. fields here in NC. Look for the sandy ridges and that’s where you’ll find the arrowheads and pot shards. If you’re barefoot where would you rather camp, in the wet sand or wet clay?
Fixed it.
Bad idea. The Everglades provides S FL with most of it’s water. No need to build between Miami and Naples. FL has 10 years of housing inventory anyway and too many people.
Not one word mentioned about the melaleuuca trees. They suck up all the water and are a pest taking over thousands of acres. Idiots planted they to try to drain the everglades.
Yep. You know, the kind that used to stampede entire herds of buffalo over a cliff; and others that completely clear-cut Easter Island.
Seriously, though -- God has made the earth so ingeniously that, if we practice sensible husbandry and cultivation, and clean up after ourselves, the environment actually improves. But if we rape the environment, the environment knows how to screw us back.
So, I suppose this explains why the regulators took all the phosphorus out of dishwasher soap, with the result that many of our dishwashers broke over the course of the past year.
We wouldn't want to be leaking a "nutrient for plants" into our streams and ponds, would we?
Talk like that is going to lose her some big Gubmint grants!
I never said anything about housing. There is about as little bio-diversity in the everglades as there is in a densely planted commercial pine plantation, or melaleuuca stand.
If you want increased panther habitat, drain the area and in a few years the panther range will be greatly increased.
You have a point about the Biscayne aquifer. If the deeper Floridan aquifer isn't for some reason suitable for use, perhaps some portion of normal sheetflow from Okeechobee to the southeast can be preserved. Otherwise, draw surface water and purify via reverse osmosis as is done in many municipalities across the nation.
Another Florida amusement park. Probably $50 to get in to see it.
No kidding. Words fail me.
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