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Swamp Still Full, Dog Ecstatic

Fay filled the swamp, but it’s been a week now, so time to check. Why yes, the swamp is still full, and the dog is ecstatic?

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Picture by Gretchen, 7 Sep 2008

How do you tell when a 100 pound Rotweiller is ecstatic? When she turns into an alligator.

The water is down a couple of inches as you can see by the watermarks, but it’s still pretty full.

Cypress Swamp: Dry, Filling….

Here’s a dry cypress swamp, with human for scale (hi Clayton):

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That was on Monday 18 August. Here’s the same swamp on Saturday, 23 August, after 4 inches of rain from tropical storm Fay, this time with human and dog for scale:

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Fay dropped 5 more inches of rain on the swamp since then. Stay tuned to see if the dog can swim.

Pictures by Gretchen.

Burning Some Piney Woods

Every few years it’s good to burn the woods! If you don’t burn piney woods, they turn into oak woods. Burning cuts down on the small oaks, vines, and undergrowth, puts potash in the soil, and lets the pines come up. Longleaf especially benefits from burning, since it survives burns especially well, and it only sprouts if its seeds land on bare mineral soil (not leaf litter or vine buildup).

I lit these woods 20 February 2008. Pictures by Gretchen.