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Good observation Brad

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Posted by: cychluraguy at Sat Feb 20 12:45:50 2010  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by cychluraguy ]  
   

The everglades is not really a very long term stable environment.
It is very young, 6000 to 8000 years old, does not have many endemic animals, most are just animals making to the most of its current status. In 10,000 years or so it will be either a shallow sea, mangrove swamp, or a compleetly dry forest with some lakes here and there. All this is completely natural, human interference or caused climate change may speed it up or slow it down but the evergaldes is a very temporary environment and some animals will move in and others out depending on which way it goes and I really don't think any animals,other than us, can destroy any "balance" there because there is no real natural balance.
Think of it as an intertidal area with a long tidal interval some times its underwater and sometimes it is completely dry and few animals survive in both extreemes most just move in and out.
I am all for keeping it clean and beautiful for us to enjoy but to act like somehow we will or can fix it or stop its change is futile. It will all work itself out in the end and in 25,000 years there will be another evergaldes exactly as it was 200 years ago.
Sorry but the everglades is not the amazon river or the rift valley it is here for a short time for us to enjoy and we should keep it clean and do what we can to keep it nice but not knock ourselves out trying to micro manage every detail.
Just a thought.
Rob


   

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