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subject[0][3] = "Mike Owens: ";
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subject[0][5] = "AHH!  There goes one ruddy Daggerwing!  I really like those guys!";

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subject[1][5] = "The Daggerwing Butterfly is a tropical species.  Around here, it often sips from a Buttonbush, a temperate species.  Here in the Fakahatchee, where the marsh becomes swamp, the tropical zone mingles with the temperate."; 

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subject[2][3] = "Mike Owens:";
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subject[2][5] = "Fakahatchee was always the best; this was always the biggest.  And, that's why it had so many tropical epiphytes.  It has deep sloughs embedded within the matrix of a very large valley.";

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subject[3][5] = "Studying the Fakahatchee is biologist Mike Owens.";

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subject[4][2] = "© Jay Staton"; 
subject[4][3] = "Mike Owens:";
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subject[4][5] = "That's why Fakahatchee, its overall size and depth and canopy and water and peat, that made it, or allowed it to be the northernmost extension of the America's tropics, or, what I like to call:  Florida's Amazon.";

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subject[5][2] = "© Connie Bransilver"; 
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subject[5][5] = "The Fakahatchee is also the Orchid Capital of the United States.  Of the 43 species found here, 29 are listed as endangered, threatened or commercially exploited.  The most celebrated - and elusive - is the Ghost Orchid.";

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subject[6][2] = "© Connie Bransilver"; 
subject[6][3] = "Mike Owens:";
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subject[6][5] = "Well, No one's ever tracked a Ghost Orchid for 20 or 30 years, so I want to track about a hundred Ghost Orchids throughout their lives, for 20 to 30 years, and find out, how fast do they grow, how long do they live?  And, how many flowers do they produce?  Of that number that are produced, how many get pollinated by the giant sphinx moth and produce a seedpod?  These are incredible questions.  What causes them to die?  Hurricanes, floods, droughts, frost events?  All these really neat biological questions that no one else has ever done before because of this unique opportunity or privilege to be a biologist in a place where they happen to grow.";

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subject[7][3] = "Narrator:";
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subject[7][5] = "One of the only places in the world they happen to grow is right here, in the Fakahatchee.";

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subject[8][3] = "Mike Owens:";
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subject[8][5] = "It was first discovered, I think in the 1840s, in Cuba.  They're only in South Florida and Cuba.";

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subject[9][2] = "Courtesy of FloridaMemory.com"; 
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subject[9][5] = "In the 1940's, this swamp was stripped of its virgin cypress for the war effort.  And, it was later drained, seemingly destined for development until the state stepped in to restore an environmentally unique and irreplaceable ecosystem.";

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subject[10][3] = "Mike Owens:";
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subject[10][5] = "Here's an orchid here . . . this one is slowly dying.  This was a Ghost Orchid, right on this tree here!  And this probably fell during hurricane Wilma.  And this would have been maybe about nine to ten feet high; now it's only about a foot-and-a-half high.  It's still above the high water mark, but it looks like it's not doing well in this new orientation.  I don't see any little spikes, but there is a dying Ghost Orchid; and that probably, could be 30 years old or even 40 years old.";

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subject[11][2] = "© Jay Staton"; 
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subject[11][5] = "The endangered species of the Fakahatchee range from tender Ghost Orchids to tawny panthers.";

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subject[12][2] = "© Connie Bransilver"; 
subject[12][3] = "Mike Owens:";
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subject[12][5] = "So, with plants, it's very hard to get people interested and curious about them but, if your going to get something close, it's gotta' be the Ghost Orchid:  it's a charismatic micro-flora.  So I have little plants, with some charisma.  So, the Ghost Orchid, you're right, I think is the floral equivalent of the panther.  It is charismatic, it's ghostly, it's this big Fumanchu mustache kind of thing.";

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subject[13][2] = "© Connie Bransilver"; 
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subject[13][5] = "The charismatic Florida Panther would be something to look at  -- if you could catch a glimpse of one, but chances of that happening are slim.  Even Chris Belden, Florida Panther coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, isn't in the habit of seeing the stealthy cats that make the Fakahatchee their home.";

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subject[14][3] = "Chris Belden:";
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subject[14][5] = "I've been studying panthers for 30 years and without the radio collars -- in fact, even with the radio collars the only ones I've seen have been from an airplane, or ones that were treed by dogs.  But, just to see one out in the woods, I have never seen one.";

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subject[15][5] = "In the 1970's, Belden found panther signs in the Fakahatchee; proof that the species wasn't completely gone.  The panther team leader for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Darrell Land, says this swamp is still ground zero for Florida Panther.";

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subject[16][3] = "Darrell Land:";
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subject[16][5] = "Without that, we wouldn't be able to support panthers; kind of on the extremes of the occupied range.  So, this is the heart and soul of where we have panthers today.";

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subject[17][5] = "Since 1981, researchers have deployed radio collars on about 150 panthers.  They've tracked their wide-ranging movements and found there was a need for wildlife crossings under increasingly busy roads.";

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subject[18][3] = "Chris Belden:";
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subject[18][5] = "How many of these crossings are on 29?";

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subject[19][3] = "Darrell Land:";
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subject[19][5] = "Well, right now, there's four in place on 29, but a total of six were required.  They're working on the final two in the planning stages right now.  But, all of the wildlife crossings were put in as a result of the interchange on state road 29 and I-75.  We used existing panther data and, of course, where we picked up road kill, to help us place where these crossings should go.  And, by looking at all of the tracks, it looks like we did a pretty good job; at least the critters seem to think so.";

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subject[20][3] = "Chris Belden:";
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subject[20][5] = "Oh yeah, bear and panther, otter and deer and hog, just about everything uses this thing.";

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subject[21][2] = "© Dennis Giardina / Florida DEP"; 
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subject[21][5] = "Road kill and habitat loss threaten the survival of the Florida Panther, the only subspecies of puma east of the Mississippi.  Officials estimate there are fewer than 100 Florida Panthers left.";

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subject[22][3] = "Chris Belden:";
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subject[22][5] = "That's the nice thing about having these wildlife crossings.  You can be standing here, where, if you were ten feet higher, you'd be dead when these dump trucks go over the top of your head.  But, here a panther doesn't even have to touch asphalt.  It goes from one patch of the woods, goes thorough a short area underneath the highway, and gets right immediately back into another patch of woods.";

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subject[23][5] = "Panther habitat in Florida is getting patchier by the day.";

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subject[24][3] = "Chris Belden:";
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subject[24][5] = 'Well, in order to look for the long term preservation of habitat here in South Florida, you know, we have to look for preservation through public acquisition; you really can\'t legislate and regulate private property to the extent that says, "no you have to keep it as panther habitat."  I think it\'s become abundantly clear that it\'s either, buy it or you\'re going to lose it.';