- The first COMPLETE web site about aquatic plant management in Florida
We are in the 18th month of a 24-month production of Aquatic Plant Management in Florida Waters, A Web Site For The Interested Public. Much of it is online already, awaiting your attention. (“We” are the University of Florida IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants and the Florida DEP Bureau of Invasive Plant Management.)
Florida is home to 8,000 lakes, 1,700 rivers, thousands of miles of canals, 400 springs, a half-dozen aquifers, millions of acres of marshes and swamps, and 14 million people. Each lake, each river and each acre of marsh is unique, often home to native plants and animals, often threatened by non-native invasive plants, and often surrounded by happy homeowners, many of whom have their own ideas about what their waterbody should be like. Talk about aquatic plant management problems!
http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/guide is here to help explain Florida’s watery ecosystems, the need for their management, and the methods used for their management. The goal of the web site is:
- to help field workers, office supervisors, management agencies, elected boards and government officials, eco-advocacy groups, legislators and others understand plants and their management in Florida waters.
Come visit this 500+ page, 3,000 photograph web site, click on the major topics, or scroll down to the large index of keywords.
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