Pfunda few- water holes remaining. Upon eraulalaig several Seinole Indian
wells. 
 
I to 4feet deep, they fouM only -powder Iiist at the bittom. All wildlife
- r 
 
tiles, aphi hi nn ani aamls parti ewlarly - suffered severely.     In *ortain.
cae* 
 
the results of the fires have indirectly affected. the birds. Vwbers of ranewene*

 
for in, taenee, concentrbted arouMd the reaining water whoe. natural fhod
ineii~tabily 
 
became scares. One large wood ibi s rookery lost abouLt 60 peroent of the
ha~tched 
 
yoiwg tIxnugh dspred..tions by the hard-pressed looone., It is ipnrob~able
tha et 
 
birds were actiielly destroyed in the fires but the effects an nesting possibilities

 
are oaast~rcvfic. There were no rookeries this spring over peapt araas on
wbi oh 
 
man egrets, aerio ns d ibises hnve been reare~d in previous years. The ooloxW

 
Of about 4.0,O Wood. ibis at Lake Warshington dispersed without nestinor.
4-*h white 
 
Ibis ha   virtunllj disaý-earad ir. Vlorida instead of being the soot
abuAapatn 
 
breeding "pcieo.. 
 
     lrinediate i teý) shoiuli bes ttaken by 'the State and the ?edera2.
Governent to 
 
ied~y, ao far as po-ssible the destruction oaijsWe by foolinh and unjustifiable

 
draidnoge In southern vlorida whicoh directly oo)ntributed to the present
eituaattoSn 
 
1'r watftr oee be restored the effecots of the fires outside the burned areas
will 
 
Sot he felt greatly souath of the ?niim Trail and along the snuthwestern
coaset. 
 
T~. to the destruction of a great portion o~f the espotern rverlad~es, It
is iWM 
 
perAti vs tlvýt n plan be ewvoldm. for restoring mi sture in the remininr
in Order 
 
to minimisei the eff'ects of futur4 fires. 'This objective could. be nceenulisho4,
it 
 
th~e e.-.ln.. rodn drninage di tab.. in the Cape ';Pblo regon were blocked
off or 
 
eloqed. Osmtes at the outlet. would caue the water to remain nn the flat
prairties 
 
north if fPlaingo PnJ Tast Cape and provide fine winter feeding grounds for
all 
 
im-rshbLving birds,    oto of water could be achieved by means of Otos. 
     It is