A letter from Dan Kimball, Everglades National Park superintendent
Shovel removing embankment to allow water in the L-29 borrow canal to flow south into ENP. The water level in the canal was approximately 6-inches higher than water to the south in the ENP, so no Class 5 rapids, but a pretty good flow resulted when the embankment was removed.
Removal of the “old” Tamiami Trail adjacent to the bridge should be completed by August of this year.
The Burmese python was 18-feet, 8-nches long – more than three times his height. The previous record-holder is a snake that measured in at 17-feet, 7-inches.
Another historic event
The largest Burmese python captured yet in South Florida (18-feet, 8-inches; 128.26-pounds; empty stomach; no eggs; no microchip) was caught just east of the Park on 5/11/2013. Jason Leon of Miami was riding his ATV about 2300 when he and his passenger sighted a large Burmese python sticking about three feet out from the brush. He stopped the ATV, grabbed the snake behind the head, and tried to drag it out. The snake began to wrap around his leg so he called for assistance from his fellow ATV’ers, got a knife, and decapitated the snake. Click here to see story of the capture […]
