aquatics Archive

Showed off Her Beauty

By Bart Colucci Open Space Restoration combines nature with fiction, so to get the most out of each writing here is a brief trackline for this story: Lemna Valdiviani really does exist and on this day she did inspire. She was there, still in the water. Her eyes piercing forward, small breasts formed to perfection. There [...]
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National Estuaries Day: This Saturday September 27, 2008

If you live in Palm Beach County, Martin County or Indian River County, this is a great weekend to take your kids out to Shepard Park in Stuart where there will be a rally to draw attention to fresh water discharges from lake Okeechobee into the Saint Lucie River. After the rally there will be [...]
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In Still Waters

Nymphoides Cristata-Creasted Floating Heart The first time I noticed the bright little ruffled white flower with a yellow center we had been doing an aquatic application on a long stretch of canal which was chocked by water lettuce. (Plant in lower left corner in above photo intermingled with Cristata-Crested Floating Heart) From the top [...]
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Rosette Spoonbill – Everglades Indicator

Late this afternoon, while working near a flooded retention area, I was joined by a few Wood Storks and their tag-a-long partner, the uncommon Rosette Spoonbill. Last time I saw a Rosette Spoonbill was right by the County Dump, a great place for bird watching. If you can stand the smell of [...]
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Above still waters

Bullet grass, coastal bermuda grass, creeping panic, dogtooth grass, panic rampant, wainaku grass are all alternative names for torpedo grass. Dogtooth grass is fairly descriptive because torpedo grass is impossible to pull out by hand, it locks into the ground like my chesapeake on a frisbee. The only difference is the torpedo grass [...]
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