[cogitator]

Makes me wonder how the poor crabs and fishies managed to survive before all the dikes and canals were constructed and pretty much the whole state was a slowly flowing river.

They could move to where the conditions were more congenial. Their movement "capability" is now restricted by the water system in South Florida.

[metesky]

I dunno, cogitator. The crabs prefer brackish water (where fresh water and salt water mingle) and it seems (to me) that theres still plenty of that around the Florida coast.

'Course I'm a carpenter, not a cogitator.

;O)

[AAABEST]

FYI the Caloosahatchee is man made and the stupid f**king crabs that everyone is so worried about (including you) just walk up and down stream to where the salinity is the proper level for them. I believe that the primary motivation was agricultural, but I'm not certain. But they do grow a lot of tomatoes on land that used to be prime Everglades. The "primary motivation" was to protect human life and property, not to create and bio world where lying junk-science freaks could play God with wildlife.

Since you know so much about the area where I live and work, could you define "prime Everglades" for me?

Did you rknow that they built your house on what was once "prime woodlands"? Sorry to break that news to you, hope you were sitting down.