1 00:00:12,946 --> 00:00:14,748 Gold head Brand State Park 2 00:00:14,748 --> 00:00:17,917 lies in the northern geographic section of Florida. 3 00:00:18,451 --> 00:00:22,188 The park contains 1561 acres 4 00:00:22,389 --> 00:00:25,025 located to the east of State Road 21, 5 00:00:25,325 --> 00:00:28,061 just north of Keystone Heights. 6 00:00:28,061 --> 00:00:30,096 The park lies in the northeastern 7 00:00:30,096 --> 00:00:32,399 edge of the central Ridge or Highlands. 8 00:00:33,099 --> 00:00:35,802 The northeastern boundary is formed by a relic 9 00:00:35,902 --> 00:00:39,072 marine terrace known as the Cody Scar. 10 00:00:39,739 --> 00:00:44,611 Gold Head is situated between Trail Ridge, whose southern boundary lies 11 00:00:44,611 --> 00:00:48,782 about eight miles to the north and the floor Holme Valley to the south. 12 00:00:49,816 --> 00:00:52,852 The topography is typical of a harsh landscape. 13 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:57,490 The rolling hills are dotted with sinkhole lakes of varying ages and depth 14 00:00:57,791 --> 00:01:00,693 and a clear spring that has cut a steep ravine, 15 00:01:00,693 --> 00:01:05,131 as opposed to Lake Johnson. 16 00:01:05,131 --> 00:01:09,636 Cross for the Park Service is to obtain original, original pieces of 17 00:01:10,737 --> 00:01:13,840 Florida known as the original Domain. 18 00:01:14,374 --> 00:01:17,677 It's not always prized pieces of property, but it's property 19 00:01:17,677 --> 00:01:20,914 that can usually be put back to the way it was before. 20 00:01:20,914 --> 00:01:23,316 The white man and the Florida 21 00:01:24,717 --> 00:01:28,221 when the Indians were here by themselves that were considered actually a part 22 00:01:28,822 --> 00:01:33,059 of the ecology when they burnt halfway across the state 23 00:01:33,059 --> 00:01:35,695 in the fire, ripped through this area, not over to the coast. 24 00:01:36,096 --> 00:01:39,666 That was considered a natural system when a lightning fire struck 25 00:01:40,233 --> 00:01:43,803 and caused a big fire that was considered a natural system. 26 00:01:44,237 --> 00:01:46,239 The Park Service's philosophy 27 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:49,576 is to maintain these natural systems, 28 00:01:50,143 --> 00:01:53,213 maintain the property as it would be maintained naturally. 29 00:01:53,713 --> 00:01:57,784 Sometimes that requires that absolutely nothing be done 30 00:01:58,485 --> 00:02:01,354 except protect an area 31 00:02:01,554 --> 00:02:03,590 that can be seen 32 00:02:04,591 --> 00:02:06,759 in a ravine in the park, other times 33 00:02:06,759 --> 00:02:10,163 that require some actual physical management. 34 00:02:10,530 --> 00:02:12,966 And that's that's one of the reasons why we burn 35 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:16,069 Resource management is sometimes hit and miss. 36 00:02:17,270 --> 00:02:20,240 Back in the early seventies, it was thought that a winter burn 37 00:02:20,707 --> 00:02:23,743 in an area like this was considered proper. 38 00:02:25,145 --> 00:02:27,480 And every winter we go out with our torches 39 00:02:28,181 --> 00:02:31,551 and would burn different sections of the park. 40 00:02:31,818 --> 00:02:34,621 And as time went on, the Park Service zeroed in 41 00:02:35,488 --> 00:02:37,290 on a resource management philosophy. 42 00:02:37,290 --> 00:02:40,360 And it may not be quite right yet, but we continually getting clues 43 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:46,332 from nature and from stories, from descriptions, from William Bartram 44 00:02:46,332 --> 00:02:50,970 and past explorers as to just how this area should be managed. 45 00:02:51,337 --> 00:02:55,208 We get clues from old photographs that say that 46 00:02:55,208 --> 00:03:00,046 this sandhill area was open, it was pine trees. 47 00:03:00,580 --> 00:03:04,684 It was wire grass, and the turkey logs weren't as thick as they are now. 48 00:03:04,684 --> 00:03:05,485 They're 49 00:03:07,787 --> 00:03:09,322 they were just trouble. 50 00:03:09,322 --> 00:03:11,591 But the fires kept them under control. 51 00:03:13,259 --> 00:03:18,064 The- after a period of time, they realize that when it burns 52 00:03:18,364 --> 00:03:20,800 exactly wern’t what they're looking for 53 00:03:21,601 --> 00:03:24,571 the they realized with summer burns 54 00:03:24,571 --> 00:03:28,841 that most of the animals were adapted to a summer burning program or spring. 55 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:31,911 It's known as the lightning season program. 56 00:03:31,911 --> 00:03:36,282 Uh, that during the months of May, 57 00:03:36,482 --> 00:03:39,886 June and early July, that's where most of the fires were started. 58 00:03:39,886 --> 00:03:41,087 Naturally, 59 00:03:41,588 --> 00:03:43,890 the animals adapted to this, 60 00:03:43,890 --> 00:03:47,927 the plants were adapted to this, and the trees are adapted to this. 61 00:03:48,361 --> 00:03:51,831 The wild grass which grows and is the major fuel 62 00:03:52,832 --> 00:03:55,501 at the Sandhill area, only put up soon 63 00:03:56,336 --> 00:03:58,571 during the lightning season burn. 64 00:03:58,571 --> 00:04:01,140 So if they burn during the winter, 65 00:04:01,140 --> 00:04:03,509 we don't get to see that 66 00:04:04,744 --> 00:04:08,214 particular management practice was discovered by accident. 67 00:04:08,214 --> 00:04:10,083 Down at the Ranger Academy. 68 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:14,220 They were doing a demonstration burn during the lightning season, 69 00:04:14,721 --> 00:04:17,223 which was considered the wrong time of year. 70 00:04:18,791 --> 00:04:20,393 And to their surprise, after 71 00:04:20,393 --> 00:04:24,230 the burn, the whole area came up and seeded 72 00:04:24,931 --> 00:04:28,801 and they thought that up to that time the Wiregrass was a very poor feeder, 73 00:04:29,269 --> 00:04:31,904 that it didn't put out many seed to see, 74 00:04:31,904 --> 00:04:35,208 to put out wasn't 75 00:04:35,208 --> 00:04:37,277 that the seed wasn't viable. 76 00:04:39,012 --> 00:04:42,315 So it was by accident that they that they learned that management practice. 77 00:04:43,383 --> 00:04:46,052 They used to think that the burn period for 78 00:04:46,052 --> 00:04:48,421 the area was every three or four years. 79 00:04:49,155 --> 00:04:52,592 Now they're thinking that a fuel develops in an area 80 00:04:53,059 --> 00:04:55,762 to burn every other year. 81 00:04:56,262 --> 00:04:58,298 And as a management practice 82 00:04:58,865 --> 00:05:01,501 continues, um, after several years 83 00:05:02,068 --> 00:05:04,671 we find that the whole area begins to change 84 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:19,952 within the area where I think we usually burn and the 85 00:05:20,653 --> 00:05:25,358 anything we see the reproduction of by seeds 86 00:05:25,358 --> 00:05:30,630 as opposed to vegetative reproduction was one area burned last year. 87 00:05:30,630 --> 00:05:34,434 We burn this a um, of the early spring burn about this time of the year. 88 00:05:34,901 --> 00:05:39,339 Uh, what it does, it, uh, it brings out the, uh, the seeds 89 00:05:39,339 --> 00:05:43,476 and one of the why, that's a very power plant, fertile, tolerant plant. 90 00:05:43,509 --> 00:05:47,513 Uh, and what it does is once that fire hits it, 91 00:05:47,714 --> 00:05:51,918 it sends a message to the plant to start and reproduce, 92 00:05:51,918 --> 00:05:55,521 uh, fires, usually in the same period as a cool top burn. 93 00:05:55,521 --> 00:05:58,858 And it, uh, uh, puts a lot of stress and strain around the plant. So 94 00:06:00,026 --> 00:06:01,861 when we find 95 00:06:01,861 --> 00:06:05,431 a classic sandhill looking down and so long, we find turkey 96 00:06:06,032 --> 00:06:09,035 and the relationship has to do with fire versus logging. 97 00:06:09,602 --> 00:06:13,873 And I, I almost assumed that sometime in the past the theory may have been long 98 00:06:13,873 --> 00:06:16,642 for a long way far, and maybe even before the park model, 99 00:06:17,276 --> 00:06:20,313 because there aren't any more really mature pines, 100 00:06:20,313 --> 00:06:23,983 just a very few mature pond and a lot of turkey or anything 101 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:26,753 because it has been through a fire. 102 00:06:26,753 --> 00:06:28,388 The turtles are dominant there. 103 00:06:28,388 --> 00:06:33,059 Just if you only find also the pines that we have here now, 104 00:06:33,593 --> 00:06:36,329 uh, the pines that we're using now for, uh, seedlings, 105 00:06:36,896 --> 00:06:41,701 uh, they had marks on them or cat faces on the turpentine here. 106 00:06:42,068 --> 00:06:46,639 And then we had a problem of, uh, keeping them alive because of the sap 107 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:49,742 that's only gone out of the, uh, cat faces that catch fire. 108 00:06:49,742 --> 00:06:52,378 And you have to make sure that they're out so they won't burn up. 109 00:06:52,879 --> 00:06:55,047 And then we don't have any, uh, computing power in 110 00:06:56,849 --> 00:06:57,250 the jud 111 00:06:57,250 --> 00:07:01,287 indicated was a very successful burn in terms of regeneration of all along. 112 00:07:01,287 --> 00:07:06,125 We find what the history of this area, this particular here 113 00:07:06,125 --> 00:07:09,662 is, uh, is a successful play because of the fact that the, 114 00:07:10,096 --> 00:07:12,598 uh, five and a half years ago that Turkey 115 00:07:12,698 --> 00:07:15,601 dominated this area and I have a plan to sell it in the country. 116 00:07:15,601 --> 00:07:19,705 And, uh, you can see the saplings, uh, about five foot tall, 117 00:07:20,406 --> 00:07:25,144 uh, which mean that, uh, they're growing very rapidly right now. 118 00:07:25,778 --> 00:07:28,581 Uh, probably the taproot is getting down to where the most you 119 00:07:30,883 --> 00:07:33,286 need to address it a long time before 120 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,088 we go to the fire from climate. 121 00:07:36,088 --> 00:07:41,461 Uh, I remember a fire sometime in the North Lawn, central Florida. 122 00:07:41,461 --> 00:07:46,933 Type of you won't find very, very unique in having the first five 123 00:07:46,933 --> 00:07:51,270 or six or so years get since involved with energy coming out the taproot. 124 00:07:52,038 --> 00:07:54,407 And you can kind of tell the age of the tree, 125 00:07:54,407 --> 00:07:58,177 because once it does that, then and only then does it start branching. 126 00:07:58,177 --> 00:08:02,648 And I see a number of these trees now that the apical bird, 127 00:08:02,648 --> 00:08:06,052 which was originally dormant in the field, straight shoot 128 00:08:06,085 --> 00:08:10,022 in a lot of the small ones, which is a straight shoot sticking up this year. 129 00:08:10,022 --> 00:08:10,323 I see. 130 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:14,360 Like on this one I see two branches and the other one farther over, 131 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,831 I see three coming and one discharge three coming. 132 00:08:18,831 --> 00:08:21,000 So this is the one where they start branching out, 133 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,204 looking a little bit more like what you would consider all a long time 134 00:08:25,204 --> 00:08:28,341 for most of these in this area, probably five years old. 135 00:08:28,341 --> 00:08:31,844 Then I see a lot of really small ones coming up over there 136 00:08:32,578 --> 00:08:33,980 and looks like any anything. I 137 00:08:34,981 --> 00:08:37,116 feel the 138 00:08:37,116 --> 00:08:41,254 well, we I guess we call them root circles coming up in mature trees. 139 00:08:41,254 --> 00:08:44,357 The first years have been so and what we're seeing from that 140 00:08:44,357 --> 00:08:46,392 brush coming up, which I assume another bird 141 00:08:46,392 --> 00:08:49,128 would probably wipe out the other parents who are very 142 00:08:50,196 --> 00:08:50,796 tolerant. 143 00:08:50,796 --> 00:08:53,232 Uh, the turkey, I think, uh, 144 00:08:54,166 --> 00:08:56,402 seems to be somewhat similar, not tolerant. 145 00:08:56,869 --> 00:09:00,172 Uh, if you catch them in the spring, then it really does, uh, 146 00:09:00,706 --> 00:09:03,609 it does the job on the, uh, root system also 147 00:09:04,443 --> 00:09:06,879 where they're walking through 148 00:09:06,879 --> 00:09:09,682 very fairly typical type of scab 149 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:12,818 and describe or describe it as 150 00:09:13,886 --> 00:09:17,957 we speak of northern and southern central Florida where there's kind of an area 151 00:09:17,957 --> 00:09:21,961 is dominated really by a very, very poor, soil driven nutrient. 152 00:09:22,295 --> 00:09:25,231 It will bring soil and it's what we call 153 00:09:25,231 --> 00:09:30,670 a well sorted name and soil, which is almost not real nutrient, 154 00:09:30,870 --> 00:09:35,508 extremely low in terms of nutrients and most of the vegetation. 155 00:09:35,708 --> 00:09:40,546 And we call evidence from the Allman Brothers time Zone. 156 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:42,481 What I'm looking at like right now, 157 00:09:43,649 --> 00:09:44,116 it looks like 158 00:09:44,116 --> 00:09:48,087 the dominant rotary or the dominant through shrubs monitoring this 159 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,124 this area of sand line open as a very characteristic rotary bleed. 160 00:09:52,692 --> 00:09:54,527 And I know the 161 00:09:54,827 --> 00:09:56,963 chairman of which is now coming out again, 162 00:09:57,697 --> 00:10:00,700 we have a really good fire tolerant because 163 00:10:01,767 --> 00:10:05,271 when a brush fire comes through, they reproduce from the root system 164 00:10:05,805 --> 00:10:09,575 and the rosemary like that's a very good example, Rosemary 165 00:10:10,710 --> 00:10:11,978 fire occurs. 166 00:10:11,978 --> 00:10:14,347 It tends to wipe it out. 167 00:10:14,347 --> 00:10:15,648 I don't know. 168 00:10:15,648 --> 00:10:19,619 We this doesn't look like it's been fired or burned very much either. 169 00:10:19,885 --> 00:10:24,390 We keep busy here, um, uh, for your fire, um, 170 00:10:24,590 --> 00:10:28,127 because of the fact that, uh, we're talking about the rosemary. 171 00:10:28,127 --> 00:10:31,564 Rosemary. Not very good permanent plant. 172 00:10:31,564 --> 00:10:34,467 Uh, in fact, when we burn in the sun here 173 00:10:35,167 --> 00:10:37,503 where sometimes rosemary does occur, 174 00:10:38,804 --> 00:10:40,706 remove and wipe them out. 175 00:10:40,706 --> 00:10:43,509 And the scrub, uh, 176 00:10:43,509 --> 00:10:45,678 is a place where the rosemary does occur. 177 00:10:46,412 --> 00:10:49,115 And for that reason, we try 178 00:10:49,548 --> 00:10:52,051 to keep the fire away from this one particular area. 179 00:10:52,518 --> 00:10:54,620 And a lot of 180 00:10:55,187 --> 00:11:00,226 what we've also, well, like in the Folger, like in this branch over there, 181 00:11:00,459 --> 00:11:03,763 as opposed to the Samuel community, is the things 182 00:11:03,763 --> 00:11:06,932 we know why you at all 183 00:11:06,932 --> 00:11:10,670 of our and all all of 184 00:11:11,103 --> 00:11:13,072 well we know 185 00:11:13,105 --> 00:11:15,107 that it was the inability 186 00:11:15,107 --> 00:11:18,244 to scrub shrub or it's like an English 187 00:11:19,478 --> 00:11:23,916 letter that probably comes from the economy of the soul to sell here. 188 00:11:23,916 --> 00:11:27,286 The pool is, uh, very poor and minimal. 189 00:11:28,020 --> 00:11:30,289 Uh, the water does not 190 00:11:30,289 --> 00:11:33,225 stay on the soil, and all that goes right down to the bottom. 191 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:37,663 And the the, uh, just didn't seem to flourish very well here. 192 00:11:37,897 --> 00:11:41,333 What kind of animal would you normally find in your, uh. 193 00:11:41,567 --> 00:11:45,471 The one main animal or bird is the 194 00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:49,442 scrub, Jane, which is kind of here. 195 00:11:49,442 --> 00:11:52,912 Uh, and you got, uh, some rat 196 00:11:52,912 --> 00:11:57,249 to hang out here and, uh, different, uh, snake 197 00:11:57,817 --> 00:12:01,087 you might find occasionally a rattlesnake or, uh, 198 00:12:01,754 --> 00:12:05,024 a black. 199 00:12:05,024 --> 00:12:08,360 Well, that's from James or the endangered species. 200 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,631 But this is for also, I think, the furthest north that it occurs in Florida. 201 00:12:13,065 --> 00:12:15,367 The, um, the Florida from 202 00:12:15,367 --> 00:12:17,036 and it's in the scrub. 203 00:12:17,036 --> 00:12:19,839 Those that are protected on the park, 204 00:12:19,839 --> 00:12:22,808 I assume that's part of maybe why they're not burning to 205 00:12:23,943 --> 00:12:25,111 very much. 206 00:12:26,112 --> 00:12:27,913 But those No, if you see those 207 00:12:27,913 --> 00:12:33,018 little bird fatalities uh, seem to go from a mostly, uh, sandhill 208 00:12:33,619 --> 00:12:36,489 uh, I don't know that to any particular region, 209 00:12:36,822 --> 00:12:40,292 probably because of the, uh, the, the soil itself. 210 00:12:40,292 --> 00:12:44,296 Uh, once you get past this sunny, uh, dry soil on top of you, 211 00:12:44,563 --> 00:12:47,666 there's a hard pan and, uh, black one pan, 212 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:50,636 and it would probably be a little bit tougher for 213 00:12:50,836 --> 00:12:53,906 us to begin to. 214 00:12:53,906 --> 00:12:54,807 This area is 215 00:12:56,075 --> 00:12:58,210 certainly much tougher scrub, 216 00:12:58,210 --> 00:13:02,581 more typical scrub that we see in or that we just on the other part of the park 217 00:13:03,182 --> 00:13:06,318 looks like a tremendously productive band environment. 218 00:13:06,685 --> 00:13:10,589 You know, for relatively early in the totally that there is a tremendous 219 00:13:10,589 --> 00:13:14,360 amount of reproduction, uh, a lot of hard feelings in 220 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,496 we are looking at the soil, 221 00:13:18,030 --> 00:13:21,700 the yellow standing on top of me like it should be a family of 222 00:13:22,635 --> 00:13:27,406 what used to be burning and the idea of why there is 223 00:13:27,406 --> 00:13:30,476 this and pine scrub here and in north Florida. 224 00:13:31,177 --> 00:13:34,680 It's really strange to the food also, uh, because uh, 225 00:13:35,414 --> 00:13:40,219 for the last, uh, six years there hadn't been any fire at all. 226 00:13:40,519 --> 00:13:45,324 Uh, we haven't been or there ever been a natural fire through here. 227 00:13:45,691 --> 00:13:49,261 That's a strange thing about this, uh, this one particular community, 228 00:13:49,695 --> 00:13:53,132 same pattern of usually like to reproduce by opening 229 00:13:53,132 --> 00:13:56,268 to see the, uh, doing the burn. 230 00:13:56,268 --> 00:13:59,171 Uh, since there's been absence of burned here, 231 00:13:59,638 --> 00:14:03,242 it's really strange that they're actually flourishing in this part of the part 232 00:14:27,433 --> 00:14:30,669 what we would call a very Tammy, 233 00:14:31,503 --> 00:14:36,275 which is a remote community for the other types of looking in this party, 234 00:14:36,442 --> 00:14:39,345 the sandhill and scrub community, 235 00:14:40,079 --> 00:14:43,349 the soil is almost identical to the same. 236 00:14:43,616 --> 00:14:47,519 Maybe in terms of the full analysis, the figures are found 237 00:14:48,554 --> 00:14:49,922 slightly below 238 00:14:50,589 --> 00:14:55,094 what would be the amount of the material, but relatively it's the same type of food 239 00:14:55,561 --> 00:14:58,597 and the kinds of things that we see in 240 00:14:59,698 --> 00:15:04,336 the part of the lot of the time that they are known 241 00:15:05,638 --> 00:15:06,672 in the industry. 242 00:15:06,672 --> 00:15:07,506 There are no 243 00:15:08,207 --> 00:15:12,945 ponds and three or four crab that are still 244 00:15:15,114 --> 00:15:16,949 available in this area. 245 00:15:16,949 --> 00:15:20,286 The only place I believe 246 00:15:20,719 --> 00:15:23,055 that over the a lot of material 247 00:15:23,722 --> 00:15:26,025 reaching the tree of a lot of 248 00:15:27,126 --> 00:15:29,628 the folks down 249 00:15:30,362 --> 00:15:31,997 ahead of us that are fairly large through 250 00:15:32,998 --> 00:15:35,100 the town of lonely fine and 251 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:40,005 maybe I don't know what you're looking at I guess well um, 252 00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:44,743 level four will be the old one in a row, 253 00:15:45,411 --> 00:15:49,348 and an exception would be down and another four dogwood, 254 00:15:49,748 --> 00:15:52,785 which, of course, is always the story that will be 255 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,822 the history of fire. 256 00:15:56,822 --> 00:15:58,490 And there's 257 00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:00,859 this kind of 258 00:16:01,727 --> 00:16:02,728 industrial. 259 00:16:02,728 --> 00:16:07,433 This particular community is a classic example of the absence of fire 260 00:16:07,433 --> 00:16:11,804 throughout the years, this one particular area has not been burned, 261 00:16:12,371 --> 00:16:17,543 uh, probably since the controlled burn was a in fact, about ten years ago. 262 00:16:17,543 --> 00:16:20,913 Uh, this is the reason why you have this type of, 263 00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:24,583 uh, uh, plenty of lilac in the level 264 00:16:25,084 --> 00:16:28,654 and with climates out because of the absence of fire, 265 00:16:30,356 --> 00:16:33,359 the way we hear about the lone pine, 266 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:37,529 basically the pine trees long term, the shade in intolerant. 267 00:16:38,297 --> 00:16:40,165 So this kind of a of a canopy 268 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,869 of an open area, but we're actually growing 269 00:16:44,503 --> 00:16:47,740 up into a very class and type of in a situation where 270 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:51,677 the burn is completely shaded as opposed to the years we've been looking at. 271 00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:53,045 So there is a great difference 272 00:16:53,045 --> 00:16:56,081 in terms of groundcover as well as in terms of the dominant tree 273 00:16:57,383 --> 00:17:01,587 is uh, a location that geologically is described. 274 00:17:01,587 --> 00:17:05,891 Of course topography of course really refers to any or a one 275 00:17:05,891 --> 00:17:11,163 stone bedrock, which is certainly carries a lot of quantity 276 00:17:11,330 --> 00:17:13,732 and 95% of 277 00:17:15,134 --> 00:17:17,803 as much as 95% of the actual bedrock dissolved. 278 00:17:18,337 --> 00:17:19,805 So in that kind of a system, 279 00:17:19,805 --> 00:17:23,842 you have a lot of people, a lot of potentially dead streams 280 00:17:23,842 --> 00:17:28,981 that will come out of the site, the different aquifer levels of the or so. 281 00:17:28,981 --> 00:17:29,715 So we need 282 00:17:30,949 --> 00:17:31,483 to realize 283 00:17:31,483 --> 00:17:37,089 that has no outlook on the that we're talking about like is very, 284 00:17:37,089 --> 00:17:40,759 very, very classic type of physical work with a very steep drop off. 285 00:17:41,260 --> 00:17:45,030 And so there is also 286 00:17:45,531 --> 00:17:48,300 and this is the idea 287 00:17:48,333 --> 00:17:50,769 that for how the life is, 288 00:17:51,336 --> 00:17:56,041 uh, when looking at the size of the hill and the surface and here drop down 289 00:17:56,041 --> 00:18:00,412 very abruptly is probably the lake depth wise. 290 00:18:00,412 --> 00:18:04,750 There's been, uh, there's been a 50 to 60 foot boot 291 00:18:12,691 --> 00:18:13,258 looking down. 292 00:18:13,258 --> 00:18:23,535 Take a look at the one closer. 293 00:18:23,535 --> 00:18:25,003 Right. I noticed this. 294 00:18:25,003 --> 00:18:27,306 Uh, we were talking about the little home. 295 00:18:27,306 --> 00:18:29,108 And what I 296 00:18:30,542 --> 00:18:32,845 generally find is the depth at which you get enough 297 00:18:32,878 --> 00:18:36,281 light penetration to support plants growing on the bottom. 298 00:18:36,782 --> 00:18:38,817 Well, and I notice 299 00:18:39,418 --> 00:18:41,920 that here the water should not be in the water, but, 300 00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:45,858 I mean, with water levels up somewhat from what it would normally be that. 301 00:18:45,858 --> 00:18:47,226 Well, very much so. 302 00:18:47,226 --> 00:18:50,062 Uh, we had some, uh, rainfall 303 00:18:51,463 --> 00:18:52,030 a couple of weeks 304 00:18:52,030 --> 00:18:56,068 back really on both the level of the lakes and, uh, throughout the park. 305 00:18:56,101 --> 00:19:00,873 Uh, this one is up, Um, probably about 2 to 3 feet. 306 00:19:01,573 --> 00:19:04,543 Um, I would say that 307 00:19:04,543 --> 00:19:07,446 most of this is the shrubbery 308 00:19:07,613 --> 00:19:09,882 to tree, and, uh, 309 00:19:10,582 --> 00:19:13,118 except for that, which is really, 310 00:19:13,118 --> 00:19:15,621 um, for what needs to be 311 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:18,991 maintained from the bottom because what they don't do for me out 312 00:19:18,991 --> 00:19:19,892 there looks 313 00:19:19,892 --> 00:19:23,328 very clear and I'm seeing three and it's actually right down there on the bottom. 314 00:19:23,328 --> 00:19:28,200 So it's almost a direct drop off probably within about what, four 315 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,637 or 40 to show a massive drop or just simply as to 316 00:19:32,971 --> 00:19:34,373 the full rainfall. 317 00:19:34,373 --> 00:19:36,508 The water was about right to the edge there. 318 00:19:37,209 --> 00:19:39,411 And, uh, it went straight down. 319 00:19:39,711 --> 00:19:45,050 Uh, you could see the sand and a few little, uh, sunfish that would, uh, connect to 320 00:19:48,253 --> 00:19:48,620 and then 321 00:19:48,620 --> 00:19:51,990 rainfall about the one of the, where you see it now, 322 00:19:51,990 --> 00:19:53,959 which is liquid, like there is the dissolved 323 00:19:53,959 --> 00:19:56,728 oxygen and nutrients and 324 00:19:57,262 --> 00:20:00,265 oxygen, which you think you probably expect to see really nothing in there. 325 00:20:00,265 --> 00:20:03,535 Most people are down for fairly long. 326 00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:09,675 What kind of you kind have to identify from the place 327 00:20:10,075 --> 00:20:13,645 you've been, which was probably about the first it, uh, 328 00:20:13,679 --> 00:20:16,982 and it's taken like there's, uh, some fish, 329 00:20:17,583 --> 00:20:21,720 there are some guendouzi minnows, uh, which the, some fish do don't. 330 00:20:22,187 --> 00:20:24,256 And probably, 331 00:20:24,990 --> 00:20:27,559 uh, bass would be the next in line. 332 00:20:27,626 --> 00:20:32,798 Uh, catfish maybe, uh, because the lake is a clear and uh, 333 00:20:32,898 --> 00:20:37,736 there's not much, uh, uh, the type of food that captures like the food though 334 00:20:38,136 --> 00:20:39,271 you probably wouldn't find in those 335 00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:43,675 minnows Little Blue Dawn or 336 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:46,845 within a mile away, just firstly in the spring. 337 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,515 That's something that I think would probably be associated 338 00:20:51,750 --> 00:20:53,652 the normal stage. 339 00:20:53,652 --> 00:20:56,922 The main stage actually is a quality contained in the vegetation 340 00:20:56,922 --> 00:20:58,323 along the bottom. 341 00:20:58,323 --> 00:21:02,461 And then the change metamorphose into the adult stage. 342 00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:06,198 They have to climb up on some kind of emerging plant or state or something 343 00:21:06,632 --> 00:21:08,867 and know that they don't go 344 00:21:11,069 --> 00:21:11,403 here. 345 00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:13,405 It is considered to be probably 346 00:21:13,705 --> 00:21:17,109 the only place within the North Florida, north or central Florida. 347 00:21:17,609 --> 00:21:21,280 And I know that some papers where they found dated this way 348 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,384 through over 30,000 years of age, and that is one of the things 349 00:21:26,485 --> 00:21:30,022 we were looking at their like in their life is certainly much younger like, 350 00:21:30,022 --> 00:21:34,293 uh, geological rather than sheer sheer like as a sort of a blob. 351 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:38,630 Well, where there's been erosion way around the lake is on Mars. 352 00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:38,964 Yeah. 353 00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:41,633 Here that we're standing in is getting an existing view and, 354 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,836 and we've got the thing down here 355 00:21:45,570 --> 00:21:47,939 very similar to what we saw 356 00:21:47,939 --> 00:21:50,042 in maybe seen in both motion 357 00:21:50,042 --> 00:21:53,378 and notice, but maybe there's a rhythmic the feeling of starting to come up here. 358 00:21:53,445 --> 00:21:55,881 This person just came over 359 00:21:56,415 --> 00:21:59,551 and there's a lot of boom, surge and repair going around here, 360 00:21:59,551 --> 00:22:03,822 which again is indicative of a marshy situation of a lake 361 00:22:03,822 --> 00:22:07,526 that is in a progressive state of evolution, as opposed to something 362 00:22:07,926 --> 00:22:11,830 like, um, you know much about the depth of the lake. 363 00:22:12,464 --> 00:22:15,000 This, uh, like here has been uh, 364 00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:20,172 uh, measured at about 60 foot, uh, 365 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:24,343 the divers of that, uh, that go in here have measured about being about six foot. 366 00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:27,979 So it's a good, deep clean like, uh, as you said, 367 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:30,215 the, the, the slope of the lake, uh, 368 00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:34,353 tend to tell you that the lake is possibly a little bit older than, like, 369 00:22:35,687 --> 00:22:37,823 the, the little zone. 370 00:22:37,856 --> 00:22:41,360 You can see a little shelf, which probably you think got about one 371 00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:45,230 or two feet or 12, 15 feet, which doesn't even by the time you're out there. 372 00:22:45,263 --> 00:22:52,304 I think that deep can do like you probably 20 feet deep or more. 373 00:22:52,304 --> 00:22:55,607 You elevated course topography 374 00:22:56,041 --> 00:22:58,677 then the very steep 375 00:22:58,677 --> 00:23:02,848 slopes that we're looking at, which you really will be in a solution 376 00:23:02,848 --> 00:23:03,615 nationwide. 377 00:23:03,615 --> 00:23:08,153 This is a very broad system that I would assume is true. 378 00:23:08,387 --> 00:23:12,424 And one time this whole area was a valley, probably had water 379 00:23:12,457 --> 00:23:15,961 in the lake with all the way up to the tree line was down now. 380 00:23:15,961 --> 00:23:18,563 And what was probably not one of the larger, 381 00:23:18,964 --> 00:23:21,967 uh, we have the same kind of booms we had. 382 00:23:22,601 --> 00:23:25,437 We had an a base in most parts of the world 383 00:23:25,437 --> 00:23:28,140 for a lot of work for, um, 384 00:23:28,507 --> 00:23:31,443 all over the place in every stage of development. 385 00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:35,247 And then if you go down, this is a type of lake system 386 00:23:35,714 --> 00:23:40,118 where there's a lot of floating vegetation, different types of vegetation. 387 00:23:40,118 --> 00:23:44,556 When you classify the level as we talk about, uh, emergent vegetation 388 00:23:44,556 --> 00:23:47,058 in terms of the types of the leaves, the head, 389 00:23:47,058 --> 00:23:51,196 and with the button segments like this and then the vegetation with the yellow 390 00:23:51,196 --> 00:23:54,232 and the white water lilies, which we have here, and it's 391 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,103 the water is a different type of grass and that really, 392 00:23:58,136 --> 00:24:02,808 um, stages itself and this is showing up rather than this is getting deeper. 393 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:05,477 Um, what, what 394 00:24:06,011 --> 00:24:08,380 the depth to talk about the depth with shooting 395 00:24:08,847 --> 00:24:12,317 the depth would be like, okay, that's looking out with my Johnson, 396 00:24:13,485 --> 00:24:14,252 my girlfriend 397 00:24:14,252 --> 00:24:17,556 is, uh, probably one of the lakes around the area. 398 00:24:17,556 --> 00:24:22,694 Uh, if there was no rainfall, it wasn't a lot of, uh, 399 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:27,399 material into the lake with the shell of the lake that, uh, 400 00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:29,701 as opposed to being like this, a very shallow lake. 401 00:24:30,735 --> 00:24:35,841 But, uh, waist deep out, uh, 402 00:24:36,174 --> 00:24:39,211 this particular part of the river in the water back in 1973. 403 00:24:39,778 --> 00:24:44,049 Uh, we have pictures of, uh, uh, some of the ranges, but man signs 404 00:24:44,049 --> 00:24:47,953 where the motorboats in this area, like over to the other side of the lake. 405 00:24:48,653 --> 00:24:53,792 So that, uh, documented time this was underwater was back in 1973, 406 00:24:53,792 --> 00:24:58,697 what we call a transition zone from the lake edge, from little zone 407 00:24:59,431 --> 00:25:04,269 to are up to Essential Shrubby border zone, because we've got, 408 00:25:04,369 --> 00:25:08,940 we've got my wife I, but they're also well known and where 409 00:25:08,940 --> 00:25:11,977 the both of those are being indicated plan to transition them. 410 00:25:11,977 --> 00:25:15,714 So the lake system is of this is a very different type of lake 411 00:25:15,714 --> 00:25:19,184 You know we're still going to be think of the same park system, 412 00:25:19,484 --> 00:25:23,321 but it's very different and different in terms of the hydrological. 413 00:25:23,321 --> 00:25:23,722 Well, 414 00:25:26,091 --> 00:25:28,093 this is after we just 415 00:25:28,426 --> 00:25:31,396 looking at the natural succession 416 00:25:31,396 --> 00:25:33,498 and what we call hydrology fish and 417 00:25:35,967 --> 00:25:37,636 then we did example of hydro 418 00:25:37,636 --> 00:25:40,839 succession with the springtime and the fourth. 419 00:25:41,072 --> 00:25:44,643 Bergeron which is the freshwater equivalent of the salt marsh 420 00:25:44,643 --> 00:25:47,479 But we have all of the farmers of the North Florida 421 00:25:48,113 --> 00:25:52,217 and we have a land of a lot of maintaining a lot of vegetation growth. 422 00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:55,587 With the soil uncovered anywhere here. 423 00:25:55,587 --> 00:25:57,088 And this is is totally covered. 424 00:25:57,088 --> 00:26:00,625 So this is sort of a later stage in terms of more marsh excursion 425 00:26:01,059 --> 00:26:05,163 and what you normally find in this kind of a system. 426 00:26:06,464 --> 00:26:08,934 And this, uh, you would find 427 00:26:08,934 --> 00:26:12,704 probably the most dominant animal would be the Morris Hawk, 428 00:26:13,471 --> 00:26:15,874 uh, who comes in frequently, 429 00:26:15,874 --> 00:26:24,849 uh, is also a carnivorous animal. 430 00:26:24,849 --> 00:26:29,955 Also that two, uh, snakes such as cottonmouth, moccasin, 431 00:26:29,955 --> 00:26:33,091 they prey on that, uh, mean in the path 432 00:26:33,825 --> 00:26:36,528 where the roots would grow and come. 433 00:26:36,528 --> 00:26:39,831 And also there's a type of a bird 434 00:26:40,231 --> 00:26:43,201 that, uh, that makes the nest and the small kind of grass 435 00:26:45,670 --> 00:26:48,039 that I've seen in this area 436 00:26:49,341 --> 00:26:51,443 is the Broughton bird over there. 437 00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:53,612 Not least it. 438 00:26:53,612 --> 00:26:56,681 We're usually find that in this kind of an area. 439 00:26:56,948 --> 00:27:01,786 Uh, but Anderson, very at home, in this type of area, mostly 440 00:27:02,487 --> 00:27:07,025 close to down toward the lake, that would be the impression that, 441 00:27:07,025 --> 00:27:10,395 uh, local part was probably up here not too long ago 442 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:13,832 because of the bush, uh, being this for a loop in the world. 443 00:27:13,832 --> 00:27:16,468 And normally they're down right on the water. 444 00:27:17,102 --> 00:27:19,738 Uh, right now we're about, uh, 445 00:27:19,738 --> 00:27:22,674 maybe 100 yards or so from the lake, and that's a, 446 00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:27,979 that's a, a good distance from the lake for this to be just, uh, remote 447 00:27:27,979 --> 00:27:33,518 and on a typical swamp situation, like, you know, with some of the other swamps 448 00:27:33,518 --> 00:27:34,419 that we have around here. 449 00:27:34,419 --> 00:27:39,190 So before you see Burton Bush right down there in standing water. So 450 00:27:40,258 --> 00:27:41,860 it's not that it's 451 00:27:41,893 --> 00:27:44,095 atypical, but it's very typical for it to be 452 00:27:44,095 --> 00:27:47,098 in standing water periodically from 453 00:27:47,098 --> 00:27:47,799 the bush. 454 00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:50,769 Here is, uh, is a lot of uh, 455 00:27:51,736 --> 00:27:56,975 uh, grass moved at the compound throughout the years. 456 00:27:56,975 --> 00:27:59,778 And the like moving in out from this stuff. Um, 457 00:28:01,212 --> 00:28:04,716 like you said, it is higher, uh, back up to 458 00:28:06,017 --> 00:28:08,887 what we call lake, uh, like Lake Mark 459 00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:14,993 and is when we have a lot of the material, 460 00:28:14,993 --> 00:28:17,929 the movement know 461 00:28:18,263 --> 00:28:21,633 well the movements of the surges and some of the, 462 00:28:21,633 --> 00:28:24,202 probably some of the other type of coming in 463 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:28,139 right now and look down on top of it, you could even see over this and 464 00:28:29,140 --> 00:28:31,509 the ceiling sometime in 465 00:28:31,509 --> 00:28:34,612 just dropping off, you. 466 00:28:34,612 --> 00:28:37,182 And it's probably pretty well-protected from cold. 467 00:28:37,649 --> 00:28:38,383 And that's, uh, 468 00:28:40,051 --> 00:28:43,388 uh, being contained close in to affect, 469 00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:48,493 uh, when we come in and burn off, the old glass would be, uh, dimension. 470 00:28:49,294 --> 00:28:51,663 Uh, so maybe a little, 471 00:28:52,363 --> 00:28:55,233 uh, a way to get the sunlight to grow, uh, 472 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:57,836 if this metal just left 473 00:28:58,470 --> 00:29:00,705 on the ground to rot and turn into humans. 474 00:29:00,905 --> 00:29:02,107 You here? 475 00:29:02,107 --> 00:29:05,276 Uh, throughout the years, you would smell the roots out. 476 00:29:06,111 --> 00:29:09,481 One of the, one of the good things about the metal burning 477 00:29:09,481 --> 00:29:12,383 prescribed that I was referring 478 00:29:13,318 --> 00:29:17,088 became part of the nutrient cycle is added to the nutrients in the soil. 479 00:29:17,088 --> 00:29:21,426 So it's not something that when you burn the nutrients or to the soil, if 480 00:29:22,861 --> 00:29:24,729 you look at it 481 00:29:24,729 --> 00:29:27,732 compared to the other types of services 482 00:29:27,732 --> 00:29:29,868 or what we see 483 00:29:29,868 --> 00:30:44,242 through.