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Gallery: Habitats of Martin County, Florida

Habitats of Martin County, Florida

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Gigapans taken by John Bradford (JohnB) showing the various habitats and plants of this part of Southeast Florida, USA

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  1. Halpatiokee (Seminole for “Alligator Water”) was purchased with funds from the Lands For You bond referendum and Florida Communities Trust. The 65 acre active park is surrounded by 470 acres of wetland preserve area. This image of a live oak covered with Spanish moss was taken at the edge of one of the preserve ...

  2. Image taken at Jonathan Dickinson State Park located in Martin County, Florida. This is an open canopied forest of widely scattered slash pines with an understory of saw palmettos and grasses. Also seen are turkey oaks.

  3. Bob Graham is one of many beaches located in Martin County Florida. This is a the view of a portion of a project to remove invasive plants and replace them with native trees, shrubs, and grasses. The large trees are black mangroves. Next in size are the sea grapes. Palmettos, yucca, sea oats, and beach sunflower ar...

  4. A paved trail at Jonathan Dickinson State Park located in Martin County, Florida. The sides are lined with bushy bluestem grasses (Anderpogon glomeratus) which is a common grass in scrubby flatwoods. Trees are slash pine (Pinus elliottii). For more information about grasses in this part of Florida visit the website: ...

  5. Here is the pond taken 5 months after my my first image. The pond is still dry - so dry that I'm taking this shot in the middle of it. I'm surrounded by the St. Johnswort (Hypericum) and the loblolly bay (Gardonia lasianthus) which are in flower.

  6. Florida has a lot of cattle which graze on the grasses and herbs on the pairie land. This is an image of some angus cattle and cattle egrets taken on an overcast day. As I was setting up for the shot almost all of the cows looked up and stared intently to see what I was doing. The trees in the picture are a mixture ...

  7. This shows two different habitats at Jonathan Dickinson State Park located in Martin County, Florida. In the foreground is scrubby flatwoods which contains saw palmettos and slash pine and in the background the elevation drops and it is a wetter flatwoods containing cypress trees. The original images were shot in RAW...

  8. Another habitat at Jonathan Dickinson State Park located in Martin County, Florida. This is a low-lying area that stays wet for most of the year. Sedges, grasses, and yellow-eyed grasses abound.

  9. This gigapan highlights the Culpepper Ranch restoration project. Culpepper Ranch is a 1,200-acre parcel north of the town of Jupiter in Martin County, Florida. This project involved restoring sheet flow and hydrology by removing berms, ditches and culverts. This ditch/ berm complex was built in the 1950’s and 196...

  10. Slash pine, dahoon holly, and saw palmettos surround this shallow wetlands which teems with sedges, yellow-eyed grasses, and bog buttons

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