A boardwalk in the trees is not my fancy, too high...but I did it as part of my Photo Essay on boardwalks. for the full visit to the park see http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Scenes/420724504625089
The Myakka Canopy Walkway provides easy access to observe life in the treetops of an oak/palm hammock. As an outdoor laboratory for research and education, it is a place for discovery and opportunity for visitors to Myakka to see its canopy inhabitants up close. Completed in 2000, the structure was the first public treetop trail in North America.
The walkway is suspended 25 feet above the ground and extends 100 feet through the hammock canopy. A tower soars 74 feet in the air to present a spectacular view of treetops, wetlands and the prairie/hammock interface. You can look down on eagles, hawks, vultures and the tops of live oaks and palm trees.
The Myakka Canopy Walkway was the inspiration of canopy scientist Dr. Margaret Lowman. After spending a couple of decades devising methods to study treetops in the forests of other continents, Dr. Lowman settled in as the director of Sarasota's Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.
Though her experience was with tropical ecosystems, she realized that Florida's forests were as imperiled as many of the legendary rain forests. Why not use the same methods employed to study and conserve canopies of far-away endangered forests to save our own threatened ecosystems? Little research exists on the canopies of subtropical forests. Dr. Lowman's position provided an opportunity to augment current knowledge.
So this walkway is in Myakka River State Park ($4 entry fee, but the walk is free) and is open to the public. Quiet an extreme boardwalk....http://www.myakkariver.org/index.php/activities-a-attractions/canopy-walkway?showall=&limitstart=
Click a link below, or copy and paste to your browser, to go there!
A little bit of prose, some poetry,
and a song- all about the environment.
http://billyholcoutdoors.blogspot.com/2012/05/whose-garden-was-this.html
A frank discussion about wilderness and
nature.
http://wmgcenter.blogspot.com/2012/05/can-you-find-wilderness.html
Facebook pages about the outdoors.
Outdoor Photography
Hiking Trails, Boardwalks, and outdoor
recreation construction topics
http://willwalkforfun.blogspot.com/
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