The Lovely Florida Scrub & the Brutality of Florida Culture Slums

Just finished a week of daily botanizing in central Florida, starting at the Southern end of the Lake Wales Ridge, a 115 mile “spine” of bleached-white “sugar sand” that was one of the only portions of land not inundated under the Atlantic ocean 2 million years ago. It is an extremely rich habitat full of endemic plants that occur nowhere else on Earth. The entire ridge consists of fire-dependent…