i'm sorry, encyclia what?
that true? boy, you really know your plants, mr. laroche.
charlie?
so the whole ecosystem is six thousand years old. five to six thousand years old. about that. five or six.
now the fakahatchee is the largest of all the cyrpess strands, probably in the world. i don't know of any cypress strand bigger. it's about twenty miles long, or nineteen, nineteen to twenty, nineteen.  and right here it's about five miles wide, four and a half, five. so, again, it's twenty miles long, three to five miles wide. and over here --
the oldest carbon dating they've done on any of the peat out here is fifty-seven hundred years. that's with carbon-14.
there's usually water. we've been going through a bit of a drought. say, have you seen that movie, medicine man? that's a good movie about protecting nature. it shows there could be something important in a rain forest we don't even know about, like a cure for cancer.
the alligators are over by the lakes. the temperature's a blessing for us. this time of year can get uncomfortably hot. green anole. florida's most common.
what laroche did was wrong. those flowers belong to all of us, all 250 million of us -- 250? i think it's up to 270 now -- and belonging to all of us means they belong to none of us. nobody has a right to take them. not me, not you, not john laroche, not.
tourist garbage! i don't know why people need to invent silly creatures to make nature fascinating. isn't nature amazing enough?
jesus, that writer guy.
what the hell is going on here?
who's got guns? what are you --