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Pigeon Key
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History
- Miami to Key West.
- Midway across the Seven Mile Bridge
- 400 workers were housed on the island
- After the railway was completed in 1912
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History
- The island became a small village
- Only village in the Keys at this time without a
cistern - One-Room school house, and the Teachers came from
Key West - 1935 Labor Day Hurricane
- The Pigeon Key Foundation
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Project
- Designated area
- Sea grass restoration
- Bird perches
- Bird poop
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Project Timeline
- 2006 2007 worked with GPS
- 2007 plotting planning
- Summer 07 making the perches
- Winter 2007- 2008 plat perches in plotted area
- Spring 2008 Fall 2008 observe grass
- Winter 2008 Finish
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Current Status
- Summer 2007
- Area has been plotted by classes with GPS
- Perches are soon to be made and placed
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Future Status
- Winter 2007 through December 2008
- Observe how much sea grass has re-grown
- Complete project!
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Sea Grass
- Turtle grass
- flat and ribbon-like
- low tide level to depths
- Bird Poop Helps Damaged Sea grass
- largest and most robust
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- http//www.keyshistory.org/pigeonkey.html
- http//www.pigeonkey.net/
- http//www.ckfoto.com/IMAGES/Sunrise_Sunsets/Pigeo
n20Key20sunset.htm - http//www.fla-keys.com/marathon/pigeon.cfm
- www.floridaoceanographic.org/environ/seagrass6.htm
- http//www.flmnh.ufl.edu/Fish/southflorida/seagras
s/profiles.html - http//www.flmnh.ufl.edu/Fish/southflorida/news/bi
rdpoop2003.html
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