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Posted by Bob Kelley on 18:53:54 04/25/05
In Reply to: Swallow-tailed kites in Everglades pine rockland posted by Marci
The impact on the ENP road system of trying to truck out all of that soil was the reason for leaving it. Mike Nolan, the manager of the project for ENP, has given several programs for Tropical Audubon Society and the Dade County Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society
over the past few years.
Bob Kelley
Tropical Audubon Society
RKelley@math.miami.edu
: I saw 3 swallow-tailed kites flying together over the pine forests north of the "Hole in the Doughnut" area of the Everglades. Also saw 2 large does feeding in the restoration garden area where the young pines are planted. Also several summer tanagers and red-headed woodpeckers (I know that's not their proper name --sorry!).
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: It's good to see the wildlife apparently doing so well in this area, despite all the bulldozers, etc. I understand and applaud the effort to get rid of the large tracts of Florida holly/Brazilian pepper, but does anyone know the reasoning for the 2 huge plateaus that the restoration crews have built? It seems to me the natural lay of the land would be flat, with only minor (a few inches) change in elevation.
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