environmental issues Archive

Wyatt on Carbon Footprints

Working on my trail I get an opportunity to “chew the fat” with some pretty interesting folks, but no one is more colorful than Wyatt Fulton. Wyatt is known for three things on the trail, fishing for large mouth bass, telling you the name of every bird in sight, and chomping out his opinions. Wyatt [...]
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Wild Temptress

Downy rose myrtle (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa) Don’t let the beauty of this plant fool you, it is slowly taking hold in Florida. A non-native fast grower that comes back even faster after controlled burns disrupting the growing patterns of pine flats. Originally introduced in Florida as a showy ornamental the Downy Myrtle is a unforgiving grower [...]
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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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Identify

// Instead of reaching for your keys and going out to a restaurant and movie, eat at home and spend some time enjoying your landscape, your open space. I often find myself daydreaming about my open space, a water feature here, a pine needle path over there. Daydreams are great ways to begin [...]
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