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But Tom Armentano, a scientist at Everglades National Park, argues that Georges might undermine some ecological improvements in the bay spurred in the past five years by heavier-than-usual rainfall that brought badly needed fresh water into a bay that had become too salty after a long drought in the 1980s.
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Heh, Tom was all excited about this until we pointed out to him that turtle grass is not a estuarine species and requires full strength sea water.
He didn't know.
It wasn't the hypersalinity after all, it's Hypereutrophic.
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Sometimes hurricanes help reefs by blowing away damaging sediments. Hurricane Andrew in 1992, for example, surprised ecologists.
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Except for Pacific Reef that looked like it was attacked with a sand blaster.