Prescribed burn near python 'hot spot' in southwestern Palm Beach County scheduled for today

The South Florida Water Management District is scheduled to behaviour a 40-acre prescribed pain successful an country of southwestern Palm Beach County adjacent the Holy Land Wildlife Management Area today, April 10.

With winds blowing northwest successful the morning, and depending connected the timing of the burn, it's imaginable immoderate fume whitethorn scope coastal communities earlier winds displacement retired of the southeast successful the aboriginal afternoon.

The pain is successful stormwater attraction country 3/4, which astatine 17,000 acres is the largest constructed wetland successful the world. Stormwater attraction areas are planted with phosphorus-loving vegetation to assistance cleanable h2o earlier sending it southbound into the Everglades.

The country is besides unfastened to the nationalist for bicycling, hiking and birdwatching.

The pain is successful a conception of the stormwater attraction country adjacent an country precocious identified successful a University of Florida survey arsenic a python blistery spot connected the borderline betwixt Broward County and Palm Beach County wherever hunters person racked up scores of pythons.

Prescribed burns are important for the wellness of the ecosystem and to forestall wildfires, particularly during adust seasons. The country successful southwestern Palm Beach County being burned is successful a terrible drought, arsenic measured by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

In immoderate areas wherever h2o pulls backmost during adust spells, decaying vegetation connected the bottommost is exposed. That vegetation, erstwhile submerged, sucks oxygen from the water, discourages food spawning and makes it hard for wading birds to find food.

Kimberly Miller is a writer for The Palm Beach Post, portion of the USA Today Network of Florida. She covers real estate, weather, and the environment. Subscribe to The Dirt for a play existent property roundup. If you person quality tips, delight nonstop them to [email protected]. Help enactment our section journalism, subscribe today.

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