Florida wildlife officials are distributing 3,000 pounds of lettuce a day to save starving manatees

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4. You're right of course. Stream of consciousness in the middle of the night,

musing on "our" manatees.

We're on freshwater marsh/lake now, but we still visit around the Tampa Bay area; Terra Ceia preserve near Piney Point is a favorite. It's a thin mercy that, though bad, devastation of food supply, eelgrass, etc, on the west lags that on the east, and we already know some things that work and have learned from some mistakes.

The international rise of ultraconservatism came at a horrendously bad time for climate change, but is also one of its effects.