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Back Country Boat Tour, Everglades National Park – Homestead, Florida
On the morning of our first full day in the Everglades we had a reservation for a park sponsored Backcountry Boat Tour. We had decided that to truly understand the ecology of the Everglades, where both salt and fresh water cover much of the surface, we were going to have to get out on the…
Everglades National Park – Homestead, Florida
I had last been in the Everglades 50 years ago. My recall was largely limited to a ranger led “swamp tromp” that I took with a collection of non-familial adults when I was a teen, and I was eager to return with a more nuanced eye to its ecology. We were looking for an escape…
Brukner Nature Center – Troy, Ohio
We selected Brukner Nature Center for a Presidents’ Day outing as it is reported to have Skunk Cabbage along its Swamp Boardwalk Trail and we were entering Skunk Cabbage season. Skunk Cabbage is the first wildflower to bloom in the new year in the Ohio River Valley, but there is none accessible close to our…