A Fresh Water Experience
A Fresh Water Experience For my Freshwater field-trip, I watched the CREW: Keepers of the Watershed. CREW stands for the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed. The watershed encompasses an enormous region and sustains a variety of flora and fauna. One of the major reasons that CREW is essential to the ecosystem is by its aquifer. According to Sustainability Principles and Practice: "Depletion of aquifers is another threat to biodiversity" (Page 93). Without the watershed or groundwater it supports, the biodiversity of the region would plummet. The plant life would die from lack of water and a chain reaction would cause animals to run out of food. Thus, CREW plays such an incredibly important role in sustaining the biodiversity around it. CREW is also breathtaking. The age of the Cypress trees in CREW can reach up to several hundreds of years. Some of the trees have been there since the colonial era, and yet they still stand. It leaves me in...