Chassahowitzka
Dylan Coderre
We chose Chassahowitzka for our term project due to our love of the untouched florida river spring habitats and experiencing it in a kayak or canoe. Chassahowitzka is a 30,000 acre nature and wildlife preserve and acts as a sanctuary for an incredible amount of birds fish and mammals.
Having been several times to this river we had no idea how much there was to learn about it after seeing it with new eyes from what we learned in this class. Seeing how the different ecosystems intertwine and change from what to the other and being able to actually identify why they change from freshwater coastline to hammocks to palm scrubs or pine flatwoods
Things that I learned from talking to the guy that checks in hunters in the wild life refuge is that they primarily hunt boar there and boar's uncontrolled can actually become a nuisance and destroy environments if they're over protected. Also the Eagles Nest cave in the very south of Chassahowitzka is one of the most dangerous caves in the world for cave diving and 10 people have died there since 1980.
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