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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ish who wrote (99267)3/22/2005 4:03:24 PM
From: redfish  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
As I understand it, the cattle are most responsible for killing it. The sugar is killing the Everglades from what I read.

But another problem is that they don't draw the lake down at regular intervals, which is attributable to various causes, including housing development needs. Apparently it needs a drought now and then to expose the bottom to the sun and dry up the weeds and muck.

I used to know a guy who owed sugar acres and it is an interesting business. He told me that when sugar first started being grown there, a layer of muck existed about ten feet deep. But each sugar crop uses up a bit of muck (he said an inch a harvest), so that eventually all the muck will be used up and nothing will grow there. Don't know if it's true, but he had money riding on the question so I figure he probably had some idea what he was talking about.
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