florida etc.

Hey Jonathan!
Nice to meet you via internet. Hopefully in person one day.

Here is some more stuff
Some of it is based in Northern Florida ..I dont know if that is too out of the way but I thought it couldnt hurt.

1.)Silver Springs Florida (landmark)
– severely impacted by pollution
(north of Tampa towards Jacksonville..dont know if that's too out of the way)
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2006/04/15/m1a_SILVER_SPRINGS_0415.html
“Hydrologists call this "point-to-point pollution." It is the most difficult sort of contamination to control because it
comes not from one central source, like a paper mill or a chemical plant, but from thousands of lawns, garages,
manure patties, septic tanks and leaky crankcases.”

2.)Domestic Water waste facility- Dade County

3.)Southern Florida Cattle/Dairy Farms
– home to some of the largest dairy and cattle farms
– increased energy to run these farms contributes to climate change
(excess of resources – land, water – transport) http://fl.water.usgs.gov/Sofl/fs032_98.pdf

4.)Housing development in a developed part of the Everglades
- surrounds a water runoff pond.
-Such drainage features are required by Florida law in order to reduce pollution levels in the Everglades.
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/En-Ge/Florida-Water-Management-in.html

5.)Asian soybean rust Florida
– Found in northern Florida swinging towards Alabama
– see link -> http://spdn.ifas.ufl.edu/SBR_FL_7_29_2005.jpg
(disease that –fungus- affects soybeans and other legumes)
(soybean not a native plant of Florida can be considered an invasive species
… creates competition for native Floridian plant species)
http://southeastfarmpress.com/news/081105-Florida-rust/


6.) St Johns River Jacksonville Florida
– “Floating water hyacinth was introduced from South America at the U.S. Cotton Exposition in New Orleans,
Louisiana, in 1884. By the 1890s this floating aquatic plant had become a serious problem on the St. John's River
in Jacksonville, Florida, where it interfered with commercial shipping and recreational use of the ever.”

https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Invasive/florida.html
“Old world climbing fern, which was introduced from the old world tropics as a potted plant, has spread throughout south Florida where it smothers native trees, shrubs, and herbs. The plant is spread by spores which are carried about by wind, animals, and water.”


ps. if my blogs are really confusing to read i could just bullet