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Fernando Ascanio Florida Department of Transportation – District IV
Construction Environmental Coordinator
Pre-con Contractor Requirements Requirements for the contractors during pre-con
meetings: Submit Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
(SWPPP) Submit NPDES Notice of Intent (NOI) Submit Stormwater Inspector’s Certificate Contact the permitting agencies Complete and sign FDOT Form 650-040-05/07
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Permitting Agencies Federal U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE) U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
State Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) Northwest Florida Water Management District (NWFWMD) Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) Aim to decrease impacts to environmental resources,
water quality and habitat from construction activities.
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Federal Agencies Permit Types
USACOE Wetland Resource
Permit Nationwide Permit Individual Permit General Permit
USCG Bridge Permit
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FDEP NPDES permit
State Agencies Permit Types
WMD Environmental Resource Permit
(ERP) Exemptions No Notice General Permit Notice General Permit Standard General Permit Individual Permit
Water Use (irrigation, dewatering)
No Notice General Permit Noticed General Permit Individual Permit
Right of Way (ROW)
Noticed General Permits Standard Permits
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Erosion Control Requirements in the permit conditions:
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USACOE permit – Special Condition #3:
SFWMD permit – General Condition #3:
Implementing Erosion Control Plan is essential to protect natural resources.
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Maintenance of Erosion Control devices is currently the main issue.
Water Quality - Turbidity Water of the State
NTU is a Nephelometric Turbidity Unit. A measure of water clarity.
The turbidity of discharge water must ≤ 29 NTUs above the background levels of the receiving waters.
The turbidity of discharge water must ≤ the NTU’s of the receiving waters . → 0 NTU above the background level
Outstanding Florida Waters (OFWs)
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Clearing and Grubbing Many projects begin with “Standard” or “Selective” Clearing and
Grubbing. The key to successful Clearing and Grubbing begins with education. Carefully read the Project Plans and conduct a Site Inspection to become familiar with the area
planned for Clearing and Grubbing.
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Clearing and Grubbing
Remove vegetation with equipment by any method
Remove vegetation by hand, without heavy equipment
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• Standard Clearing and Grubbing
• Selective Clearing and Grubbing
The Purpose of Permitting is to Protect Natural Resources.
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Permits
Natural Resources
Coastal Habitat Although Florida's coasts are best known for their beaches, there are many other important habitats along the coasts and immediately offshore.
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Coastal Habitat
Seagrass season: Apr.1 - Aug.31
Manatee season:
Nov.15 - Mar.31
Seagrass season: Apr.1 - Aug.31
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Turtle season: March - November
What Is Wetland?
Wetlands are considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. Plant life found in wetlands includes mangrove, pond apple, water lilies, cattails, sedges, tamarack, black spruce, cypress, gum, and many others. Animal life includes many different amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally.
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Seagrass
Seagrasses are flowering plants, which grow in marine, fully-saline environments.
Seagrasses are flowering plants, which grow in marine, fully-saline environments.
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Why seagrass is important?
1. The base of food webs
4. Helps clean water
2. Nursery habitats and hunting grounds
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Florida’s seagrasses Turtle Grass Thalassia testudinum
Manatee Grass Syringodium filiforme
Shoal Grass Halodule wrightii
Paddle Grass Halophila decipiens
Johnson’s Grass Halophila johnsonii
Star Grass Halophila engelmanni
Widgeon Grass Ruppia maritima
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Mangrove Protect shorelines from
erosion Serve as valuable nursery
areas for fish and invertebrates
Support threatened and endangered species
Utilized in many parts of the world as a renewable resource
More information: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/Fish/southflorida/mangrove/importance.html 19
Red, White, and Black Mangrove Leaves (left to right; topsides)
Red, White, and Black Mangrove Leaves (left to right; undersides)
www.seabean.com 20
Mangrove
Bald Eagles
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Crested Caracara Florida Burrowing Owl Protected Species
Bald Eagles
Eastern Indigo Snake Gopher Tortoise West Indian Manatee
Birds Common Name (Scientific Name)
Cease all work if an active nest is found within ? ft.
Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) 660 Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway audubonii) 1500
Florida Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia floridana) 1000 Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) 1000 Florida Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) 1000 Everglade Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus) 1000 Woodstork (Mycteria americana) 1000 Florida Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis pratenis) 400
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• Stop work if live birds are found in the work area. Work may resume after the bird or birds are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
• Report live sightings of Bald Eagles immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
Bald Eagles Haliaeetus leucocephalus
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Standard Conditions: Stop work if live Bald Eagles are found
in the work area. Work may resume after the bird or birds are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Bald Eagles immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a Bald Eagles is found nesting within 660 feet of the project limits, cease all work in the area until FDOT has coordinated with USFWS.
courtesy USFWS Nesting Season: October 1 to May 15
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Standard Conditions: Stop work if live Audubon’s Crested
Caracara are found in the work area. Work may resume after the bird or birds are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Audubon’s Crested Caracara immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If an Audubon’s Crested Caracara is found nesting within 1500 feet of the project limits, cease all work in the area until FDOT has coordinated with USFWS.
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Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway audubonii
Sound credit: Greg Clark, 1999.
Nesting Season: December to April
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway audubonii
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Florida Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia floridana
Standard Conditions: Stop work if live Florida Burrowing
Owls are found in the work area. Work may resume after the bird or birds are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Florida Burrowing Owls immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a Florida Burrowing Owls is found nesting within 1000 feet of the project limits, cease all work in the area until FDOT has coordinated with USFWS.
Alarmed, Defensive Call
Typical Male
Courtship Calls
Sounds Credit: Nunes D’Acosta 27
Nesting Season: October to May
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In order to continue working in this area, some animal protection is required. • Establish a 25 feet perimeter, using silt or orange fence, from the borrow to protect these individuals from construction activity. • Please inform Construction Environmental Coordinator’s office when protection is installed to provide signs for animal protection. • No one is allowed to trespass this protected area by any reason.
Florida Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia floridana
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Florida Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia floridana
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Migratory Bird Nest Removal Permit
Florida Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia floridana)
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Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides borealis
Standard Conditions: Stop work if live Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers
are found in the work area. Work may resume after the bird or birds are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a Red-Cockaded Woodpecker is found nesting within 1000 feet of the project limits, cease all work in the area until FDOT has coordinated with USFWS.
Sounds courtesy USFWS
Call
Tapping
Nesting Season: April to July
Florida Scrub Jay Aphelocoma coerulescens
Standard Conditions: Stop work if Florida Scrub Jays are
found in the work area. Work may resume after the bird or birds are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Florida Scrub Jays immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a Florida Scrub Jays is found nesting within 1000 feet of the project limits, cease all work in the area until FDOT has coordinated with USFWS.
Sound credit 'Sounds of Florida's Birds', Copyright 1998, by J. W. Hardy, Curator meritus in Ornithology and Bioacoustics at the Florida Museum of Natural History
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Curious and friendly, scrub jays generally live in oak-covered, dry and sandy areas of Florida called “scrub” habitat. Each jay gathers and buries thousands of acorns annually to eat throughout the year
Threatened- A cousin of the scrub jays common in the western United States and Mexico, the Florida scrub jay is found only in the Sunshine State. These birds are about a foot long from head to tail and mostly blue, like blue jays. They have a light gray forehead and white throat.
Courtesy SFWMD
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Standard Conditions: Stop work if live Everglade Snail Kites are
found in the work area. Work may resume after the bird or birds are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Everglade Snail Kite immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a Everglade Snail Kite is found nesting within 1000 ft of the project limits, cease all work in the area until FDOT has coordinated with USFWS.
Everglade Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus
Sound courtesy of Macaulay Library © Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Nesting Season: December to August
Woodstork Mycteria americana
Standard Conditions: Stop work if live Woodstorks are
found in the work area. Work may resume after the bird or birds are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Woodstorks immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a Woodstork is found nesting within 1000 ft of the project limits, cease all work in the area until FDOT has coordinated with USFWS.
Wood Stork Chicks
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Nesting Season: October to March
Standard Conditions: Stop work if a live Florida sandhill crane
(Grus canadensis pratenis) is found in the work area. Work may resume after the bird(s) are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Florida Sandhill Cranes immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If an active nest is found within 400 feet of the project limit, cease all work in the area until FDOT has coordinated within the FWC. Immediately notify the District Construction Environmental Coordinator and the Engineer.
Florida Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis pratenis
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Nesting Season: January to April
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Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis
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Osprey Pandion haliaetus
The incubation and nesting period extends into the summer months. The osprey is listed as a Species of Special Concern only in Monroe County. Permits are required throughout the state to remove a nest for these wonderful raptors, however, a replacement structure must be erected to mitigate the removal of the nest
Nesting Season: December to February
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Migratory Bird Nest Removal Permit
osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Limpkin Aramus guarauna
The limpkin is a large unique marsh bird with a dark brown body with white streaks on it's neck, back, wings and breast.
The limpkin was once very common in Florida, but due to the decline of its primary food source, the Florida Apple Snail, it is now listed as a species of special concern.
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Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The Piping Plover is globally threatened and endangered.
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Least Tern Sterna antillarum
Least terns are the smallest member of the gull and tern family. They are approximately 9" in length. Unlike gulls, terns will dive into the water for small fish. The body of least terns is predominately gray and white, with black streaking on the head.
American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) is a wading bird of the deep South, the striking White Ibis is frequently seen on lawns looking for large insects as well as probing for prey along the shoreline. American White Ibis is Florida’s Endangered Bird. 43 Photographer: Unknown
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Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
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American Kestrel Falco sparverius
Male
Female
Standard Conditions: Stop work if live Gopher Tortoises are found
in the work area. Work may resume after the Gopher Tortoises are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Gopher Tortoises immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a Gopher Tortoise or burrow is found within an area of construction then the area must have staked silt fence partially encircling the burrow.
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Gopher Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus
25ft Burrow opening
Nesting Season: March to December
Their burrows provide a home and refuge for the tortoise and more than 350 species of wild animals and insects that share the same habitat.
Gopher Tortoises − A Keystone Species
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Eastern Indigo Snake Drymarchon corais couperi
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Standard Conditions: Stop work if live Eastern Indigo Snakes
are found in the work area. Work may resume after the snake or snakes are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Eastern Indigo Snakes to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a dead Eastern Indigo Snake is found on the project site, freeze the dead snake as soon as possible and immediately notify the District Environmental Administrator and Construction Project Manager.
Northern Black Racer Coluber constrictor constrictor
Length = approx. 33 inches
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2 Snakes Look Like Eastern Indigo Snake
What we do if we see Manatee during construction?
All in-water operations must be shutdown if a manatee(s) comes within 50 ft of the operation.
Activities will not resume until the manatee(s) has moved beyond the 50-ft radius, or until 30 minutes elapses if the manatee(s) has not reappeared within 50ft of the operation
All vehicles shall operate at “no wake/idle” speeds at all times while in the construction area and while in water where the draft of the vessel provides less than a four foot clearance from the bottom.
Post identification posters for easy recognition of listed species.
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Manatee
Scared Manatee
Sound courtesy U.S. Geological Survey, Sirenia Project
Manatee Signs: http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/manatee/signs
West Indian Manatee
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Fishing Rod for Manatees?
Green Sea Turtle Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
Sea Turtles
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Nesting Season: Jun - Sep
Nesting Season: Mar - Jul
Nesting Season: May - Aug
Nesting Season: Apr - Nov
Nesting Season: Apr - Jun
Sea Turtles
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Shortnose Sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum
Gulf Sturgeon A. oxyrinchus desotoi
Sturgeons • If a Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser
brevirostrum) or a Gulf sturgeon (A. oxyrinchus desotoi) is seen within 300 feet of active construction/dredging operation or vessel movement, implement all appropriate precautions to ensure protection of the sturgeon.
• Post signs on site warning of the presence of sturgeon, of their endangered status, and precautions needed.
• Take care in lowering equipment or material below the water surface and into the stream bed to ensure no harm occurs to any sturgeon which may have entered the construction area undetected.
• Following completion of the project, prepare a report summarizing any involvement with sturgeon for NMFS and/or USFWS.
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Florida Panther Puma concolor coryi
Standard Conditions: Stop work if a live Florida panther is found in
the work area. Work may resume after the panther is allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Florida panther immediately to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a dead panther is observed within the project site or if any collision with and/or injury to a panther occurs they shall be reported within two hours to the FWC through their wildlife alert line (888-404-3922). Immediately notify the District Environmental Administrator and Construction Project Manager.
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Florida Panther Puma concolor coryi
Photo copyright Mark Lotz. Florida Wildlife Commission
In 2006, 11 Florida panthers killed by vehicle.
In 2007, 15 Florida panthers killed by vehicle.
In 2008, 10 Florida panthers killed by vehicle.
In 2009, 17 Florida panthers killed by vehicle.
A single wild population in south Florida of 80-100 adult panthers is all that remains of a species that once ranged throughout most of the southeastern United States. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Florida Panther Puma concolor coryi
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Florida Black Bear Ursus americanus floridanus
Standard Conditions: Stop work if a live Florida black bear (Ursus
americanus floridanus) is found in the work area. Work may resume after the bear(s) are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of Florida black bear to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
If a dead black bear is observed within the project site or if any collision with and/or injury to a black bear occurs they shall be reported within two hours to the FWC through their wildlife alert line (888-404-3922). Immediately notify the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
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Bear Growling 1
Bear Growling 2
Bear Cubs Growling Sounds courtesy USFWS
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“20 lb bear cub ran into the side of a CW Roberts pickup truck on the Mid-Bay job and was knocked out…stone cold. Jackson Guard is monitoring him and will release if he recovers. Appears to have a concussion.”
(Garrett, Michael , September 09, 2011)
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Sherman’s Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger shermani
Big Cypress Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger avicennia
Fox Squirrel
Breeding Season: Oct - Feb
Breeding Season: Apr - Aug
Standard Conditions: Stop work if a live Sherman’s Fox Squirrel
(Sciurus niger shermani) or a Big Cypress Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger avicennia) is found in the work area. Work may resume after the fox squirrel(s) are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of fox squirrels to the District Environmental Administrator and the Engineer.
No trees are to be removed that contain active next(s) being utilized by fox squirrels. If any nests are found and deemed to be active, a buffer of 125 feet will be established around the nest tree(s) and no clearing shall occur within the buffer until the nest becomes inactive.
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Sand Skink Neoseps reynoldsi
Blue Tailed Mole Skink Eumeces egregius lividus
Skink
Standard Conditions: Stop work if a live sand skink (Neoseps
reynoldsi) or a live blue tailed mole skink (Eumeces egregius lividus) is found within the work area or adjacent to the work area. Work may resume after the skink(s) are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of skinks immediately to the District Environmental Administrator or Construction Environmental Coordinator and the Engineer.
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American Crocodile Crocodylus actus
Nesting Season: April to May
Standard Conditions: Stop work if a live American crocodile
(Crocodylus actus) is found within the work area or adjacent to the work area. Work may resume after the crocodile(s) are allowed to leave the area of their own volition.
Report live sightings of American Crocodiles immediately to the District Environmental Administrator or Construction Environmental Coordinator and the Engineer.
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American Alligator (native)
American Crocodile (native)
Caiman Crocodile (exotic)
courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Difference Between Crocodiles and Alligators
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Difference Between Crocodiles and Alligators
Crocodile Alligator
Grayish green color Black in color
Fourth tooth on lower jaw exposed when mouth is closed
Only upper teeth exposed when mouth is
closed
Narrow tapered snout Broad rounded snout
Young are light with dark stripes
Young are dark with yellow stripes
courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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12’ Alligator found in the storm sewer during pipe desilting operations in Okeechobee on SR 70
Bats of Florida
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In Florida, most bat pups are born from late April through June after a gestation period of 45-90 days, depending on the species.
Mexican free-tailed bat
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Mexican free-tailed bat Tadarida brasiliensis
Sounds courtesy USFWS
Bats (vocalizing)
The Key Deer
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The Key Deer
Native Vs. Exotic Species
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Florida Native Plants
Cypress, Bald Taxodium distichum
Oak, Live Quercus virginiana
Pond apple Annona glabra
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Definition of Florida Native Plants: “A plant species that is presumed to have been present in Florida before European contact." (Florida statute 5B-40.00)
Seagrape Coccoloba uvifera
Florida Royal Palm Roystonea regia
Florida Native Plants
Gumbo Limbo Bursera simaruba
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Shell-Mound Pricklypear; Erect Pricklypear Opuntia stricta
Florida Native Plants
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Native Snakes
Brown water snake
Banded water snake
Florida green water snake
Eastern Indigo snake
Cottonmouth
Diamondback Rattlesnake
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Exotic Species Invasions of exotic species cost Floridians over $500
million each year.
And the economic costs are small potatoes compared to the ecological ones.
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Florida Exotic Plants Brazilian Pepper Schinus terebinthifolius
Melaleuca, Paper bark Melaleuca quinquenervia
Autralian Pine Casuarina equisetifolia
Guava Psidium guajava
Air-Potato Dioscorea bulbifera
Japanese climbing fern Lygodium japonicum
Don’t plant a pest! Give them an inch and they’ll take an acre…
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Brazilian pepper Schinus terebinthifolius
Florida Exotic Plants
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Melaleuca, Paper bark Melaleuca quinquenervia
Florida Exotic Plants
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Australian pine Casuarina equisetifolia
Florida Exotic Plants
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Guava Psidium guajava
Florida Exotic Plants
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Air-Potato Dioscorea bulbifera
Air Potato completely smothering another plant
heart-shaped leaves
Florida Exotic Plants
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Japanese climbing fern Lygodium japonicum
Florida Exotic Plants
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Tropical soda apple Solanum viarum
Florida Exotic Plants
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Green Iguanas Iguana iguana
Nile monitor Varanus niloticus
Florida Exotic Animals
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Green Iguanas Nile Monitor
Threaten vegetation in coastal areas and private gardens Nile monitors eat almost anything, including
native burrowing owls and gopher tortoises, and can pose a threat to small pets.
Both the green iguana and the Nile monitor grow into powerful, 6-7ft
Sharp teeth, wicked tails and bad attitudes
Excellent swimmers
Florida Exotic Animals
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Florida Exotic Animals
Iguanas
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Monkeys in Hollywood and Dania Beach
Times are tough, even for the troops of long-tailed African monkeys who have lived in the mangroves of Dania Beach for the past 50 years.
Monkeys hang out and are fed behind the Motel 6 in Dania Beach. Here, one of the monkeys looks at spectators as he eats a banana while perched on the fence. (Joe Rimkus Jr./Miami Herald) 1/15/2011
Taken on one of our projects on 7/12/2011
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Number of Pythons Removed Yearly from Everglades National Park
Female Pythons Bearing Eggs are Now Routinely Captured in Everglades National Park
Pythons Burmese, African rock and
reticulated pythons can grow 20 feet or longer, weigh more than 200 pounds and live 25 years.
A 3 year-old, “small” python will eat 2 rabbits a month.
More than 600 burmese pythons have been removed from Everglades National Park so far.
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Burmese Pythons Nonnative, Nonvenomous Dark Blotches along the back and sides (like a giraffe)
Florida Exotic Animals
Island Apple Snail The island apple snail, with mega-
appetites, can strip large areas of aquatic vegetation in Florida’s waterways.
Island apple snails (left) grow much larger than the native species (right), Everglades National Park A cluster of bright pink island
apple snail eggs differs greatly from the white eggs of our native species
Native Exotic
Exotic
Native
Native vs. Exotic Snail
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Giant African Land Snail
The Giant African land snail is one of the most damaging snails in the world because they consume at least 500 different types of plants. They can also cause health issues to handlers and workers (snail can carry a parasitic nematode that can lead to meningitis in humans).
www.nps.gov/ever/naturescience/floridainvaders.htm
More Information
Florida Invaders
www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/sw_swppp_guide.pdf SWPPP Guide
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Fernando Ascanio Department of Transportation
District IV – Construction (954) 777-4665