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From Environmental Technology
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The most critical issue in the Everglades is the lack of fresh natural water. Because of man made water controls the natural flow is disrupted, but for a short period of time there are seasonal rains that aid the deminished water. Durring the months May through October rain water will make its way down from Southern Florida. Though between the months of November and April there is a complete dry season where almost all water is dried up.
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The Everglade habitats are: Marine/Estuarine, Mangrove Forests, Coastal Prarie, Freshwater Marl Prarie, Freshwater Slough, Cypres, Hardwood Hammocs, and Pinelands.
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Alligators are the largest preditors of this region. They live in coastal swamps of North and South Carolina to the tip of Southern Florida then west along the Gulf Coast to the mouth of the Rio Grand. They eat insects, crabs, crayfish, fish frogs snails, turtles, snakes, coots, grebes, wading, birds, racoons, otters, deer, and other alligators.
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A Manatee is a big wrinkly, wiskery faced, with a paddle-like tail, 1000 pound mammal. They roam U.S. coastal waters and live in warm waters like those found in Florida Bay. The eat sea grasses and aquatic plants. They like to live in shallow waters where speeding boats run over their backs, cut them, and slowly infection leads to sickness or death.
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Fires are good, by burning out the old growth you renutrient the earth so that new grass and plants can grow.
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Rain droughts, hurricanes, wind, and lightening all contribute to the Florida Everglades.
